Harry L Sturla Jr

Military

Shot down by flak and crashed at Ghedi on 7/12/44 in B-24 #44-40130, Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

A Swedish Soldier guards a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40159) nicknamed "Boulder Buff" of the 492nd Bomb Group that has landed in Sweden.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

Nine men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a Air Force bomber plane.  Four men standing in rear and five men kneeling in front
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 859th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Ohio, USA 6 December 1915

Died

La Grange, Illinois, USA 12 April 1976 (aged 60)

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 12 July 1944 Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16

Buried

Elmhurst, Illinois, USA Mount Emblem Cemetery

Revisions

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Changed the label of the Enlisted event to Died.

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Added Born, Died and Buried events per Find-a-grave Memorial ID 186696812.

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Updated role and rank per info merged from Duplicate person who has been deleted.

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Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.
Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person who was then deleted.

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MACR 7563 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database