Dan Harrison - B-24 crew and POW

Antipodean Andy · Apr 28, 2008

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Of the 11 men aboard the B-24 Liberator, Daniel Franklin Harrison was one of only five who lived after it was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed May 10, 1944.

Somehow, he survived until Gen. George Patton's 7th Army liberated his POW camp on April 29, 1945.

After dodging death at so many turns, Harrison returned to Gastonia after World War II, where he married, raised a family and lived for many years.

But like so many of his generation, he rarely spoke of his wartime experience.

"I'd hear bits and pieces, like how they ate potatoes in the POW camp," said his daughter, Holly Harrison of Gastonia. "But not the whole thing."

Harrison died April 19, not a month shy of his 85th birthday. But his story as a soldier and a POW lives on in the photos his family still has from that time, and in an interview he gave to an interested pastor 19 years ago.

For more of this story see Sunday and Monday's Gaston Gazette or go online Saturday, Sunday or anytime after to read the whole account of Harrison's experiences as a World War II POW.
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