Harry E. Jennings was born in 1923, in New York. He was the son of Harry A. Jennings of Buffalo. He resided in Oneida County, New York prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on March 27, 1941, prior to the war, in Utica, New York. He was noted as being employed as an Actor and also as Single, without dependents.

Harry served as a Second Lieutenant and pilot on P-51B #42-106429, 335th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. On May 25, 1945, he took off from Station F-356, England on a bomber escort mission over Hamburg, Germany. Harry was shot down in combat by a German ME-109 and crashed near Hamburg but was declared Missing in Action. Climbing to intercept an ME-109 at 34,000’, his target turned the tables on him, and when last seen his Mustang was receiving strikes “from spinner to rudder... pouring brown smoke and glycol... flicking as though the aircraft was partly out of control.”

2Lt Jennings is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov, 4thfightergroupassociation.org