The Man Behind the Name
§ Biography
Engineer/Top Turret Gunner of B-24H 42-51078. Listed as MIA on the original MACR, with status later updated to RTD. The MACR spells the surname as 'Earth' but the German hospital document and serial number confirm the correct spelling is Harth.
Born 24 August 1923 in Virginia. A German hospital record from Reserve-Lazarett V Hamburg dated 19 January 1945 confirms he was admitted on 17 January 1945 with second-degree burns (Verbrennungen II. Grades).
Service record.
§ As Catalogued
Position
Engineer / Top Turret
Serial Number
33654478
Hometown
Virginia
Missions flown.
2 catalogued · 17 Jan 1945 — 10 Jan 1945
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.
Sources.
§ Provenance
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1945
Official record
2nd Air Division · 2nd Air Division Digital Archive · 1944
Official record