John Tyson Hardin
Military
Object Number - UPL 7514 - Official caption: Lt. John T Hardin, pilot of the 322nd Bomb Squadron, looks out of his plane, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "The Bearded Beauty"...
John T Hardin was a pilot with the 91st Bomb Group.
His most memorable mission was the one when they went to bomb the U-Boat Pen at La Pallice, France. His plane "Mizpah" collided with "Fury" but both planes were able to land. Only two crew members were injured, from flak: top turret gunner lost one eye, navigator got a cut on one arm.
Completed 25 missions 22 June 1943. Promoted from Lieutenant to Captain on 19 June 1943 after his last mission.
Pilot for Eastern Air Lines from 1945 to 1979.
View an interview with John T Hardin by Georgia WWII Oral History Project here:
http://www.gpb.org/wwii/john-hardin
AM w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Mizpah, The Bearded Lady, The Bearded Beauty
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars 322nd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 22 June 1943
- Date: 15 June 1943
- Date: 13 June 1943
- Date: 11 June 1943
- Date: 29 May 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Macon, Mississippi | 17 December 1919 | |
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Enlisted |
Jackson, MS, USA | 15 August 1941 | |
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Other Returned to the USA |
15 July 1943 | ||
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Died |
Marietta, GA, USA | 8 July 2013 | |
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Based |
Bassingbourn |
Revisions
Enlistment record: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=17&cat=all&tf…
Record of death: http://www.tributes.com/show/John-T.-Hardin-96146937
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self
