Harold Krumsiek Jr. was born on April 10th 1924 in Worcester, MA. His parents were Harold and Bernice.



Harold joined the US Army Air Corp in 1943 and his first bombing mission was on 2 Oct 1943 over Kassel Germany. He completed 35 bombing missions with the unit. He meet his future wife (Eva Sheldrake) will stationed in England. Eva Sheldrake was in the WRNS stationed in London. At the end of the 35 bombing missions he was sent back stateside. Hoping to get back to England, he re-enlisted but was assigned to cargo planes flying in the Pacific. His future wife came to the states for a visit to Washington DC in 1948, but went up to Springfield, MA for a visit and got married within 2 months. At the end of the war, Harold remained in the US Air Force reserves until 1952.



Harold received his purple heart while flying over Cologne, Germany. They crash landed at least once in Belgium. A number of times the plane came back damaged due to the shrapnel. The last plane that he was navigator was a B-17 named 'Utah Gal' piloted by Robert K. Hawkins.



He was the father of four children, Paul, Pamela, Peter and Perry and eight grandchildren.



He lived in Massachusetts his entire live, namely in Worcester, Springfield, Granby and South Hadley. He started work at Texon, Inc in 1952 and continued there until his retirement in 1985.