James Witter
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 #4124497 'Mizpah II. ' Returned to base.
James Elmer Harlow
Military
Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 #4124497 'Mizpah II. ' Returned to base.
Service
People
Units served with
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91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla... -
322nd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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41-24497 Possibly 'Mizpah II' on one side, 'Frisco Jinny' on the other
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered ? ?; with Jim Dale force landed Berry Fd, Nashville, TN 15/8/42; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-P] Westover 16/8/42; Bassingbourn 30/9/42; Missing in Action on the aircraft's 26th mission, to Stuttgart on 6 September 1943 with Pilot William R. Cox;...
Associated Place
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Bassingbourn
Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
Events
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Revisions
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| 01 October 2014 00:31:42 | Clive Stevens | Changes to middlename, highest rank and place associations |
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Audio documented WWII history of James E Harlow as recorded and sent to me in the summer of 1992. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:14:17 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 267-8 S |
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