Harold E. Wheeler was born on July 8, 1916 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Wheeler's family moved to Akron OH in 1920, he grew up there and attended Akron University. He was in the ROTC, the University Cloudhoppers flying club and Sigma Beta Nu Fraternity. He enlisted in the Army Air Corp and served in Panama before returning to the States in 1942 to attend officers training, after which he was sent to India.

Wheeler was killed when the B-24J bomber on which he was the navigator crashed twenty miles south of Luliang, China. All aboard were killed. The aircraft was part of the 10th Air Force, 7th Bombardment Group, 9th Bombardment Squadron. The Squadron was being used to fly fuel and supplies from India over the Himalayas to the Chinese and United States Army Air Forces based in China.

Wheeler is now buried in the Glendale Cemetery, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA. He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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