Rank and Name, Second Lieutenant Harry M. VanZandt.

Unit/Placed in, 47^th Fighter Squadron, 15^th Fighter Group “The Long Campaign”.

Harry is born approx. on Aug. 1, 1917 in Vancouver, Washington.

Mother, Estella vanZandt.

Harry enlisted the service in Washington with service number # o-774365.

Harry’s Crew and position on-board the plane a P-51 were,

2^nd Lt.          Harry M. VanZandt          Pilot

Harry died while on escort with B-29 he came in bad weather conditions and probably crashed in sea near Honshu on June 1, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Air Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Harry is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

He also has a Memorial Grave at Old Vancouver City Cemetery, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.

Thanks to https://www.7thfighter.com/15thfg/index.htm Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC, https://abmc.gov

P.O.W. info, Wes Injerd and Dwight Rider, http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html  AirForce, Rolland Swank NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org

Philippine Scouts Heritage Society,http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/   

Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org    

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