McCleary H Harper
Military ROLL OF HONOURShot down 21 October 1942 in B-17 41-24344 while serving as Radio Operator. Killed in Action (KIA).
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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
- Unit: 97th Bomb Group 414th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 21 October 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Buried/ Commemorated |
Plouescat, France | 27 October 1942 | Buried by the Germans in the cemetery of Plouescat, France on 27-Oct-42. While other KIA member of this crew were also buried in this cemetery and later exhumed and moved to Brittany American Cemetery, the MACR record does not record that this airman was ever moved from the cemetery at Plouescat, France. |
Born |
Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA | ||
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Plouescat, France | 21 October 1942 | Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15352 only indicates that he was MIA. However, testimony from 1Lt. Robert E. Jackson, in that MACR record, said that a German officer showed him the ID tags of 5 of the 8 KIAs in this crew and indicated that three others were unidentified but claimed that all the KIAs had been recovered and buried. |
Revisions
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Changes
Sources
Lee Cunningham 19-Nov-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15352.
ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 28-Oct-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 15352.
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15352 / MACR 15352, Losses of the 8th and 9th AF Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 38 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database