Harry E Jennings

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-27737.png UPL 27737 2nd LT Harry E. Jennings

Hometown: Buffalo, New York
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
MOS: 1055 - Pilot, single engine fighter
Unit: 335th Fighter Squadron Aircraft:
P-51B-10-NA 42-106429 WD-W
4th Service: 2 May 1944 — 24 May 1944
5 missions
24 MAY 44 Climbing to intercept an ME-109 at 34,000’,
his target turned the tables on him and

when last seen his Mustang was receiving
strikes “from spinner to rudder...pouring
brown smoke and glycol..flicking as though
the aircraft was partly out of control”
KIA (MACR 5287)

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Object Number - UPL 27737 - 2nd LT Harry E. Jennings Hometown: Buffalo, New York Rank: 2nd Lieutenant MOS: 1055 - Pilot, single engine fighter Unit: 335th Fighter...

Assigned to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to return, shot down in combat by Bf109, P-51B 42-106429 crashed near Hamburg 24-May-44. Jennings KIA. MACR 5287.

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Aircraft

A P-51 Mustang (WD-W_ , serial number 42-106429) nicknamed "Judy IV" of the 335th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, flown by Lieutenant Harry E Jennings, 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '"Judy IV" WD-W_, 335FS, Spring '44. Source - W Jensen.'
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Judy IV
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron

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Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Utica, NY, USA 27 March 1941 Utica, New York

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Assigned

Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK 2 May 1944 - 24 May 1944 Assigned to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF.

Died

Hamburg, Germany 24 May 1944 Failed to return, shot down in combat by Bf109, P-51B 42-106429 crashed near Hamburg 24-May-44. Jennings KIA. MACR 5287.
Buffalo, New York, USA

Buried

Cambridge American Cemetery Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK

Born

New York, NY, USA

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Photo from 4th Fighter Group Association

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5287 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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