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Contact Info
Home Town Houston
Last Address 2437 Lidstone St. Houston, Tex
MIA Date Feb 11, 1944
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Papua New Guinea
Location of Memorial Forest Park Cemetery - Houston, Texas
Allan S. Harrison III was the only child of Cora M. and Allan S. Harrison II, a Proctor & Gamble salesman, who grew up in a simple house on Lidstone Street in Houston. He attended Stephen F. Austin High School and attended ROTC then attended the University of Houston. During the Pacific War joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR) and entered flight school in Corpus Christi, Texas. Afterwards, assigned to the Pacific. On January 9, 1944 he claimed a Zero probable. On January 23, 1944 he claimed two Zeros and Hamp. Finally on February 4, 1944 he claimed one Zeke. In total, 4 aerial victories and a probable. Before he was lost, he flew a total of ten combat mission. Harrison earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with Gold Star and Purple Heart (posthumously). Source: http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/f4u/55908.html
HARRISON, Allan S, First Lieutenant, O-21213, USMC, from Texas, Manila American Cemetery + HARRISON, Allan Sublett, III, 21213, POW&MP Det, HQ USMC, Washington DC, January 17, 1946, missing-killed in action + HARRISON, Allan Sublett, III, 1st Lieutenant, USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan S. Harrison, II 2437 Lidstone St., Houston, Tex + HARRISON, Allan S III, 1STLT, O-021213, USMC, from Texas, location New Britain Island, date of loss February 11, 1944
Body Not Recovered
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Northern Solomon Islands Campaign (1943-44)
From Month/Year
February / 1943
To Month/Year
November / 1944
Description The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the construction of several naval and air bases with the goals of protecting the flank of the Japanese offensive in New Guinea, establishing a security barrier for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, and providing bases for interdicting supply lines between the Allied powers of the United States and Australia and New Zealand.
The Allies, in order to defend their communication and supply lines in the South Pacific, supported a counteroffensive in New Guinea, isolated the Japanese base at Rabaul, and counterattacked the Japanese in the Solomons with landings on Guadalcanal (see Guadalcanal Campaign) and small neighboring islands on 7 August 1942. These landings initiated a series of combined-arms battles between the two adversaries, beginning with the Guadalcanal landing and continuing with several battles in the central and northern Solomons, on and around New Georgia Island, and Bougainville Island.
In a campaign of attrition fought on land, on sea, and in the air, the Allies wore the Japanese down, inflicting irreplaceable losses on Japanese military assets. The Allies retook some of the Solomon Islands (although resistance continued until the end of the war), and they also isolated and neutralized some Japanese positions, which were then bypassed. The Solomon Islands campaign then converged with the New Guinea campaign.
