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Subject: [PARRY] Harry R. Parry, WWII Death, 8 Feb 1942
Date: 16 May 2002 20:48:03 -0600

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Redding Record-Searchlight And The Courier-Free Press
Redding, Calif., Saturday, May 23, 1942

Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Parry of Shasta received a letter
Wednesday from their son, Harry R. Parry, written from
Malang, Java, on Jan. 24, just two weeks before he was
killed in action in a bomber over Java.

At that time Parry, a gunner in a B-17 bomber, was in
a hospital recovering from a gunshot wound in the left
arm and wrote that he hoped to be back in action
shortly. The wound had earned him a promotion to
sergeant.

Sgt. Parry was killed in action over Java on Feb. 8.

Sgt. Parry enlisted in the army about two years ago
after graduating at Shasta union high school. He had
helped ferry bombers to England, and had been
stationed on the island of Trinidad before being sent
to the Far East.

Last Nov. 30 he was married in Salt Lake City to Miss
Ellen McLaughlin of that city.

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