Name:
Harry Solomon
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-755043
Unit:
563rd Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1944-04-11
State:
Ohio
Cemetery:
Cambridge American Cemetery, United Kingdom
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Air Medal, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster
Comments:
Harry Solomon was born in 1920 in Czech Republic. He resided in Ohio prior to the war. Harry served as a Second Lieutenant and Bombardier on B-17G (#42-97255), 563rd Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He was declared "Missing In Action" over Rostock, Germany on April 11, 1944 and is commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Harry was one of the many brave Americans of the 388th Bomber Group who lost their lives in aerial operations against the German forces from June 1943 - August 1945.