Harry Ronald Anderson
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 54534 - 2nd Lt Harry R. Anderson, 379BG.
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 2 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Bremen / Wilhelmshaven in B-17 42-29915 11-Jun-43; Shot down, plane crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 1760
Awards: AM, PH.
Connections
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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: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20119730 / O-731722
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Thunder God
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 11 June 1943
- Date: 29 May 1943
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Waterbury, CT | 11 April 1921 | Son of August T Anderson and Hilda J Olsson |
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Enlisted |
New Haven, CT | 17 March 1943 | New Haven, Connecticut |
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Died |
North Sea | 11 June 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Bremen / Wilhelmshaven in B-17 42-29915 11-Jun-43; Shot down, plane crashed into North Sea. KIA MACR 1760 |
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Buried/ Commemorated |
Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery | ||
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Based Killed in Action (KIA) |
Germany | 11 June 1943 | Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Family knowledge of individual and events of his death. There were several Harry Andersons from the area surrounding Cheshire, CT who served in the war. My relative was shot down over the north sea in 1943 and was born in 1921. I believe that some of the records attributed to this account MAY be an amalgam of one or more of those Harry Andersons.
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https://www.fold3.com/record/85753689-harry-r-anderson
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https://www.fold3.com/record/529901044-harry-r-anderson
http://www.8thairforce.com/
379th Bombardment Group (H) Anthology, November 1942-July 1945
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56287378/harry-r-anderson
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1760 / MACR 1760; The 379th Bombardier Group Anthology, pg 262 and 345 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
