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Captain Kenneth F. Harriman, circa 1935-2012

 

Summary

Extent:
1 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [boxes and Folder number], Captain Kenneth F. Harriman, 5.0076, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/WWII-5-0076

Background

Scope and content:

Kenneth F. Harniman served in the Army Air Force as a lead navigator for the 451st Bomb Squadron in the Atlantic and European Theaters (ETO). The collection contains a memoir entitled "A Wartime of Vignettes" by Captain Harniman. He joined the Army Air Force on 5 November 1941, and trained out of Maxwell Field (Montgomery, Alabama) and Dorr Field (Arcadia, Florida). He was initially stationed with the 451st out of MacDill Field (Tampa, Florida). He flew navigation missions to Trinidad, Belem, Natal, Ascension Island, Liberia, Dakar, Marrketch, and Port Lyautey before being sent to Andrews Field in England for combat duty. Harniman flew in combat missions over Europe from 31 July 1943 to 22 April 1944, where he was captured by the Germans as a POW when he bailed out of his B-26. He was interrogated at Frankfurt and held in Stalag Luft III until 27 January 1945. He was then forced to march by foot to Nuremberg until 4 April, where he and other POWs escaped and hid out, and were rescued by U.S. Army soldiers on 29 April. The manuscript has many photos of camp life in the U.S. and abroad, as well as personalized hand-drawn artwork depicting life in Stalag Luft III.

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [boxes and Folder number], Captain Kenneth F. Harriman, 5.0076, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/WWII-5-0076

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA