Harold Secor
Military
Crew members L-R: Capt Joseph S Tate (P), St Augustine, FL; 2Lt Thomas B Roll (CP), Milwaukee, WI; 2Lt Thaddeus R Hawkins Jr (N), Griffin, GA; 2Lt Orval D Huff (B), Waterman, IL; T/Sgt Aaron F Moses (E), Monroe, LA; T/Sgt Harold Secor (R), Savannah,GA; S/Sgt Cleiborn U Booker (LW), Augusta, GA; S/Sgt James T South (RW), Lavoina, GA; S/Sgt Edward W Eichmann (BT), Milwaukee, WI; S/Sgt Arthur L Crandall (TG), Campellsburg, IN. All from 93BG Hardwick, Norfolk, England, April 1943.
Object Number - UPL 48090 - Lord Trenchard inspects crew of Consolidated B-24 Liberator, ‘Ball of Fire Junior’, at a US bomber station in England. Crew members L-R: Capt...
Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 16-Apr-43 in B-24 41-23983. Some crew members had baled out when the plane exploded blowing some crew clear. Prisoner of War (POW) in Stalag 17B. NOTE: MACR spells name 'Socor', NARA as 'Secor' with no listings for Socor
Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-434473
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Savannah, New York | 22 September 1919 | Son of Ray A and Hazel K Secor. |
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Enlisted |
Rochester, NY | 29 December 1941 | Rochester, New York |
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Other Baled out POW |
Brest, France | 16 April 1943 | Shot down 16-Apr-43 in B-24 41-23983; baled out POW. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau | 16 April 1943 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb. |
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Died |
Savannah, NY | 5 January 2004 | |
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Based |
Hardwick | 16 April 1943 | Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Change to aircraft association according to ‘Losses of the US 8th & 9th Air Forces’, Bishop and Hey
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, MACR 15730, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 104, NARA & Page 402 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45)
