*CENOTAPH. Stowaway Cook.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. Stanley was a cook with a CA Coastal Artillery unit and had requested transfer to the AAF. On 15 April 1943, he borrowed a flying jacket from an airman and ran out on to the runway, jumping in to a plane that was about to take off. This was the crew's second mission for the day, and they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. Stanley was a cook with a CA Coastal Artillery unit and had requested transfer to the AAF. On 15 April 1943, he borrowed a flying jacket from an airman and ran out on to the runway, jumping in to a plane that was about to take off. This was the crew's second mission for the day, and they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
*CENOTAPH. Stowaway Cook.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. Stanley was a cook with a CA Coastal Artillery unit and had requested transfer to the AAF. On 15 April 1943, he borrowed a flying jacket from an airman and ran out on to the runway, jumping in to a plane that was about to take off. This was the crew's second mission for the day, and they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. Stanley was a cook with a CA Coastal Artillery unit and had requested transfer to the AAF. On 15 April 1943, he borrowed a flying jacket from an airman and ran out on to the runway, jumping in to a plane that was about to take off. This was the crew's second mission for the day, and they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
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HARMON STANLEY G JR
CPL - 36 BOMB SQ 28 BOMB GP(H) - CAL
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