George Harris papers
Scope and Contents
George D. Harris (Army Air Corps, 1942-1945) trained as a radioman and gunner on a B-17 and was assigned to the 91st Bomb Group in England in 1943. His collection contains a photocopy of three articles from the American Ex-Prisoners of War Bulletin from January 1996 and a copy of his oral history interview conducted on February 26, 2003.
Dates
- Created: 1942-1945
- Other: Date acquired: 08/07/2000
Creator
- Harris, George D., 1923-2012 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Biographical or Historical Information
George D. Harris (Army Air Corps, 1942-1945) trained as a radioman and gunner on a B-17. Harris was assigned to the 91st Bomb Group in England in 1943. He completed fifteen missions before being shot down and bailing out over the North Sea. He drifted to Holland where he was picked up by the SS. He describes the interrogation process, and what it was like to be a POW in several camps (Stalag 17, Stalag Luft 1, Stalag Luft 6, Stalag Luft 4). He tried to escape at Stalag 17 and Stalag 1. When the Russian Army advanced, POWs at Stalag Luft 4 were forced to march for nearly three months. They were liberated at the Elbe River at Halle, Germany by General George Patton’s Third Army. Harris comments on the prisoner rehabilitation camp in which he stayed prior to his journey to the United States. He was discharged after taking sixty days of R & R.
Extent
1 folders
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
creator
Custodial History
Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.
Source of Acquisition
George Harris
Method of Acquisition
donation
- B-17 bomber Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei--Schutzstaffel) Subject Source: Local sources
- Prisoners of war Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Prisoners of war--Europe--Interviews Subject Source: Local sources
- Prisoners of war--Germany--History--20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Army
- United States. Army Air Forces
- United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 91st
- United States. Army Ground Forces Subject Source: Lcnaf
- United States. Army. Army, 3rd Subject Source: Local sources
- World War, 1939-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Elbe River Valley (Czech Republic and Germany) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945--United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- George Harris papers
- Author
- Craig Whittington
- Date
- 02/27/2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
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