Harvey Nielsen
Military
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UPL 20157
B24 42-52234 Corky, with the Nortridge crew (crew 25)
Apparently a happy-go-lucky character. "We had a gunner named Harvey Nielsen, he had a fixation on monkeys. He bought his first one in South America and it was a mean son of a gun, and he sold it back to the guy for half the price he paid for it." Bill LeRoy, crewmate
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 733rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0663084
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Corky Burgundy Bombers
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 733rd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Pickering, MO USA | 17 July 1920 | |
Enlisted |
7 October 1942 | ||
Died |
Mission, TX, USA | 7 June 1981 | |
Buried |
Pickering, MO USA | White Oak Cemetery Pickering Nodaway County Missouri, USA |
Revisions
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The Liberator Men of Old Buc
Contributorusxpat
Changes
Sources
An Emotional Gauntlet, Stuart J Wright, Pen & Sword Books, © 2004
Find A Grave Memorial # 159827065
ancestry.com, BIRLS death file