Harold L Morris

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Harold Morris was Ball Turret gunner on B-17 #42-30816 on the 11 December 1943 mission to Emden, Germany. Wounded in the fighter attack, he was killed in the crash-landing of the Fortress near Warfhuizen, 25km NW of Groningen, Noord Holland, The Netherlands. Killed In Action (KIA).

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Forrest V Poore

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 551st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14076842 at enlistment, then O-797601
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Linn Carter Stuckenbruck

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 551st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19097663 at enlistment, then O-735000
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

John Richard Ward

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 551st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-802285
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Alva McLeon Woodall

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 551st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14083140
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer/Top Turret Gunner

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Event Location Date Description

Born

16 March 1919 Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, the son of Jesse A. and Bessie M. Morris

Enlisted

7 November 1941 Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Other

Killed In Action (KIA)

11 December 1943 hit by a Flak shell on board, he was killed in the crash-landing of B-17 #42-30816 near Warfhuizen, 25km NW of Groningen, Noord Holland, The Netherlands.

Buried

14 December 1943 at the Warfhuizen cemetery
Coffeyville, Kansas

Buried

after the war, his remains were brought back to the United States. Harold Morris rests at the Fairview Cemetery in Coffeyville, Kansas

Revisions

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Sources

MACR 1664
NARA WWII enlistment records
US 1940 Census for Kansas
WWII Draft card
Dutch page at http://zuurdiek.nl/1943-vliegend-fort-mary-ellen-iii-neergestort/
NARA – Translations of German captured records, page 128 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18238556

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1664 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database