Jack Miller Harrington
MilitaryBottom L-R Thurman M Geren, Charles R Wilson, William W Jeffers and Harry E Cobb.
Daughter
Most significant experience occurred on 16-Febr-45 as consequence of bombing mission of Gelsenkirchen oil refinery. Because of flak damage to aircraft during and following bomb run, we were unable to return to England and were forced to ditch in the North Sea about 10 miles off Holland. The aircraft broke in two just aft of radio room. The 9-man crew survived the ditching and subsequent very cold and wet exposure for over 12 hours until washing ashore at a German coastal installation near Haarlem, Holland. All became Prisoner of War (POW) until liberated by U. S. Forces from Stalag VIIA at Mooseberg, Germany on 29-Apr-45. Plane was B-17 43-38187 'Carrie B'.
Awards: PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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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: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19161773 and O-710455
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33683670
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-?
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17136337
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2072764
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Carrie B II
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 16 February 1945
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Benefield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 13D, Oflag 73
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Shawnee, OK | 12 November 1925 | Son of M M Harrington. |
Enlisted |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States | 16 February 1944 | as a Private in the Air Corps |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Nuremberg-Langwasser, Germany | 16 February 1945 | POW Stalag XIII D Nuremberg-Langwasser - Stalag VII A Moosburg. NARA WWII POW database : "Returned to Military Control 19/10/1945"... |
Died |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States | 9 December 1999 | |
Buried |
Rose Hill Burial Park Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK | 12 December 1999 | Rose Hill Burial Park Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma |
Based |
Deenethorpe | 16 February 1945 | Assigned to 613BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12446 / MACR 12446,
href="http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1917">http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1917> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database