MAURY COUNTY NATIVES AND FORMER RESIDENTS INTERRED ELSEWHERE.
HARMON, CPL Dillard, b.
23 March 1909. Bomber Group 417, 673rd Squardron,5th Air Force, WWII, died in a
B-25 Bomber crash May 22, 1944. CPL Harmon's name is listed on the above
memorial among his 10 fellow bombardiers whose bodies were located 16 years
after the crash in the remote tropical Mountains of New Guinea. Interment in the
Jefferson Barracks Cemetery at St. Louis Missouri. New
Clippings of the tragedy.
Photos and information provided by Linda Sharp Yates 3/21/2006.