Harold David Andrews Jr

Military
media-48407.png UPL 48407 1LT Harold David Andrews
Pilot
416th BG - 671st BS - 9th AF

Object Number - UPL 48407 - 1LT Harold David Andrews Pilot 416th BG - 671st BS - 9th AF

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Units served with

An A-26 Invader (F6-P, serial number 43-22330) nicknamed "For Pete's Sake" of the 416th Bomb Group prepares for take-off at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group . Written on slide casing: '416 BG Mount Farm.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Ninth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: A-26 Invader
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Nicknames: Snooks
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 668th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Nicknames: Winsome Winnie
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 669th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Nicknames: Desperate Ambrose
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 671st Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 671st Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Melun, Alsace

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Lewiston, Maine 30 December 1922

Enlisted

Portland, Maine 10 April 1942

Other

First 416th BG Combat Mission

Conches, France 7 March 1944

Other

Final 416th BG Combat Mission

Saarlautern, Germany 2 December 1944 Flew 70 combat missions

Died

Auburn, Maine 9 July 2019 1st Lieutenant Harold David Andrews, Jr. was born on December 30th, 1922 to Harold David Andrews, Sr. and Ellen Harding Andrews at Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston, Maine. He was the second of seven children. The eldest was Willard Andrews. Norman Andrews, Paul Andrews, Francis Bernstein, Florence Young and Marjorie Quimby were his other siblings. He has numerous nieces and nephews. He was graduated from Edward Little High School June 12th, 1940. He entered service March 25th, 1943. As a member of the 9th Air Force, 416th Bomb Group, 671st Bomb Squadron, he flew 65 bombing missions flying out of Wethersfield England bombing the Axis in France and then moving to Melun France after France was liberated. On D-Day he was part of 37 aircraft that the French Underground notified that Hitler had 1000 Panzer tanks protecting Calais that were hurriedly put on rail cars to go to Normandy when Hitler realized that Calais was not the invasion site. Those 37 planes wiped out the entire rail line and the tanks, in Serquez France shortening the war for those on the ground. They lost 4 aircraft and only 4 came back without battle damage. Because of his part in freeing France he has recently been approved by France for the Legion de Honor, to be presented posthumously. During the war he corresponded with Jacquelyn Marshall who was living in Ocala Florida at the time. Each morning before his mission he would write her name on his A-20 and later A-26 in chalk before takeoff. A few days after arriving back in the United States he married his sweetheart and they were married for 66 years until her death. When he is buried, her urn will be placed in his hands in his honor.

Buried

Auburn, Maine 12 July 2019 Mount Auburn Cemetery Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA

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