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Oral History Interview with Cecil C. Harris, February 3, 2006
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cecil Harris. Harris was born 20 February 1925 in Raymond, Mississippi. In January 1943 he joined the Army Air Force Enlisted Reserves and entered basic training at Kessler Air Base, Mississippi. In May 1943 he was sent to the University of Tennessee in preparation for pre-flight training. He went to Nashville for classification and was selected for pilot training. He went to Montgomery, Alabama for primary training by a civilian instructor. After training in BT-13 aircraft at Courtland, Alabama, he flew AT-10 aircraft in advanced training at Freeman Field, Indiana and graduated 22 May 1944. He then went to Gulfport, Mississippi to begin B-17 crew training. Upon completing the training the crew was sent to New York City where in January 1945 they boarded the RMS Aquitania. Landing in Scotland they were transported to Glatton Air Base, England where they reported to the 457th Bomb Group, 748th Bomb Squadron. In reporting to the Deputy CO, Harris found the man had been his Boy Scout Master many years before. He flew thirty-two combat missions and describes a number of them. Of particular interest is his recollection of an encounter with a German M-262 jet fighter and witnessing the fighter shoot down a B-17. His unit was ordered back to the United States and the crew flew a B-17 home, arriving on 8 June 1945. Harris was discharged 19 October 1945
[Telegrams to Jack Ruby from John C. Halloran and W. Harris and A. Tangherlini, November 24, 1963 #1]
No full textIndividual telegrams by John C. Halloran and W. Harris with A. Tangherlini to Jack Ruby, thanking and congratulating him for killing Lee Harvey Oswald
Letter to Edward Harris from C. P. Horton, 2 September 1859
No full textC. P. Horton of Boston writes to Edward Harris about fishing equipmentA separate envelope included with this letter was not digitized
Letter from William C. Harris to the Commissioners of Catawba Presbytery, May 16, 1961
No full textLetter sent by William C. Harris to the Commissioners of Catawba Presbytery calling for a Pro re Nata meeting. The meeting was to be held at the Ban Salem Church in Charlotte, N.C. on May 26, 1961
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Fred C. Buck to Harris L. Kempner discussing Kempner's speech and gifting him a pipe
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Harris Leon Kempner's secretary to C. B. Ransom informing him that Kempner would be unable to attend an upcoming luncheon
Image 53: C. Lynn Harris Studio Portrait
No full textPhotograph of an infant on draped chair taken at the C. Lynn Harris photgraphy studio. Photo taken in the late 19th or early 20th century.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/harwood_photo/1052/thumbnail.jp
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Harris L. Kempner to Gertrude C. Macomber discussing flight details for his upcoming trip to Bermuda
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Harris L. Kempner to James C. Lide requesting that he reserve plane seats for him and Mrs. Kempner
Interview with C. Elwyn Harris
No full textC. Elwyn Harris was employed at an ammunition depot in Portsmouth, Virginia, when he enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1941. He was placed aboard the buoy tender Speedwell and served doing coastal patrols, search and rescue missions, and buoy tending until July of 1945 when he was transferred to a troop transport, the General Black, ferrying servicemen to and from Europe and, later, Calcutta. He was discharged in November of that year as a first class machines mate
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