Harry S. Ellis

Rank: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces

Serial: 0-821470

Unit: 341st Fighter Squadron, 348th Fighter Group

Entered service from: New Jersey

Died: September 16, 1945

Burial: Missing in Action or Buried at Sea — Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii

Second Lieutenant Harry S. Ellis was born on November 6, 1916. When the 1940 Census was taken, he was working at the Campbell Soup factory and living at 921 Vine Street with his wife Eugenie, a stenographer.

Second Lieutenant Ellis served as a fighter pilot with the 348th Fighter Group, 341st Fighter Squadron. He was lost along with his aircraft, P-51D Mustang #44-15072, over the Southwest Pacific region on September 16, 1945, shortly after hostilities with Japan had ended. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Eugenia Ellis.

Second Lieutenant Ellis is memorialized at the Brigadier William J. Doyle National Cemetery in Wrightstown, New Jersey.