Harris, Harley Stafford Jr.
Navy Lieutenant (junior grade)

Harley Stafford Jr. Harris from Maywood, California, Los Angeles county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, June 28, 1951
Death details: Lieutenant Junior Grade Harley Stafford Harris Jr. entered the U.S. Navy from California and served with Attack Squadron 55. On June 28, 1951, he piloted an AD-4 Skyraider (bureau number 123855) that took off from the USS Princeton (CV-37) on a strafing run against enemy targets over North Korea. While over the target, the Skyraider was hit by enemy small arms ground fire and crashed. The aircraft exploded upon impact and burned, killing LTJG Harris. Other aircraft on the mission circled the crash site but saw no movement and, because of the active enemy presence, no ground recovery efforts to recover his remains were possible. He is still unaccounted-for. Today, Lieutenant Harris is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency