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TSgt. George F. Harrington
United States Army Air Forces 96th Bomber Group 337th Bomber Squadron
from:San Francisco, California
(d.21st May 1943)
George Harrington enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on 9th of January 1942 in San Francisco, CA. He said that he was born in 1920 and had 3 years of high school education. He was 6'1" tall and weighed 179 pounds. A Technical Sergeant assigned to the 337th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group (a heavy B-17 squadron) based at USAAF Snetterton Heath in England. A top-turret gunner, he was declared missing on 21st of May 1943 in B-17 Flying Fortress 42-29734 on an Operation to Emden. The 10 crew were all killed in Action when shot up by an enemy aircraft, the damaged wing fell off as the aircraft hit North Sea 70 miles off the Frisian Islands, noted in Missing Air Crew Report 3685.
The crew were:
Capt Gil Stephenson, Co-pilot
Don Aulenbach, Navigator
Gene McGowen, Bombardier
Bob Grover, Flight engineer/top turret gunner (washed up Spiekeroog Island on 7th of June 1943)