Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
259121
Capt Harlan Bennett Bixby
US Air Force 351st Bomb Group Heavy
from:Glenwood City, WI
Harlan Bixby served with the 351st Heavy Bomber Group US Air Force in WW2. On 31st of December 1943, his plane, the B-17 "Piccadilly Commando", ditched off the beach of Guernsey Island. Harlan was captured by the Germans and ended up in Stalag Luft 1. For the next 16 months he was incarcerated there.