Harold was a member of the Beth Jacob Orthodox Jewish Congregation in Cumberland, Maryland.
Harold Yankelevitz (23, 19 March 1917, Keyser, West Virginia), a resident of 502 N. Centre St., Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 1034, Order No. 2584) on 16 October 1940 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. He was unemployed. Harold listed his sister, Mrs. Harry Pierce, as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5' 10" in height, 162 lbs., with a dark complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Harold Yankelevitz (1917 West Virginia), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13023389) in the U.S. Army Air Corps on 03 June 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia. He was single and had completed 4 years of high school.
Private Yankelevitz was sent to Bolling Field in Washington, D.C. for training and then on to Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.He was assigned to the 91st Bomber Squadron, 27th Bomber Group, Light, U.S. Army Air Corps. He was promoted in early October 1941 to Private First Class while stationed at Savannah.
The 27th Bombardment Group was the first assigned unit to the new Hunter Army Airfield in 1940. In 1941, the group was reequipped with Douglas A-24 Banshee Dive Bombers, and on 21 October 1941 the 27th was ordered to the Philippine Islands in response to the growing crisis in the Pacific.
Cumberlander Is Jap Prisoner In Philippines
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Yankelevitz, 502 North Centre street, have been notified that their son, Private First Class Harold Yankelevitz, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, is a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Corregidor. He had been reported as "missing" last month by the War Department.
The young soldier enlisted last June 2 and served at Bolling Field and in Georgia before being transferred in November to the Philippines. He is a graduate of Allegany High School, where he was a member of the basketball team. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 June 1942, page 13.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz (S/N 13023389), 91st Bomber Squadron, died at 1:00 pm on 22 July 1942 of malaria and nutritional edema, in Barracks No. 16, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1107th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men from Bataan.
He was buried in a communal grave No. 1017 in the camp cemetery along with 21 other deceased American POWs who died during the 24 hour period. After the war, all the remains in the Cabanatuan Prison cemetery that could be found were disinterred (between December 1945 - February 1946) and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands. The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948 for positive identification. Unfortunately, no clothing, personal effects nor any other means of identification were found for him and his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan. Ten of the remains in Grave 1017 were identified in 1951, 11 were not able to be positively identified including Harold. He most likely is buried in the Manila American Cemetery as a "Known but to God". There are 953 men like Tec/5 Yankelevitz who were not identified after the war, "unknowns", permanently interred in the Manila American Cemetery from Cabanatuan.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Awards: Purple Heart.
Harold Yankelevitz (23, 19 March 1917, Keyser, West Virginia), a resident of 502 N. Centre St., Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 1034, Order No. 2584) on 16 October 1940 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. He was unemployed. Harold listed his sister, Mrs. Harry Pierce, as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5' 10" in height, 162 lbs., with a dark complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Harold Yankelevitz (1917 West Virginia), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13023389) in the U.S. Army Air Corps on 03 June 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia. He was single and had completed 4 years of high school.
Private Yankelevitz was sent to Bolling Field in Washington, D.C. for training and then on to Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.He was assigned to the 91st Bomber Squadron, 27th Bomber Group, Light, U.S. Army Air Corps. He was promoted in early October 1941 to Private First Class while stationed at Savannah.
The 27th Bombardment Group was the first assigned unit to the new Hunter Army Airfield in 1940. In 1941, the group was reequipped with Douglas A-24 Banshee Dive Bombers, and on 21 October 1941 the 27th was ordered to the Philippine Islands in response to the growing crisis in the Pacific.
Cumberlander Is Jap Prisoner In Philippines
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Yankelevitz, 502 North Centre street, have been notified that their son, Private First Class Harold Yankelevitz, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, is a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Corregidor. He had been reported as "missing" last month by the War Department.
The young soldier enlisted last June 2 and served at Bolling Field and in Georgia before being transferred in November to the Philippines. He is a graduate of Allegany High School, where he was a member of the basketball team. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 June 1942, page 13.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz (S/N 13023389), 91st Bomber Squadron, died at 1:00 pm on 22 July 1942 of malaria and nutritional edema, in Barracks No. 16, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1107th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men from Bataan.
He was buried in a communal grave No. 1017 in the camp cemetery along with 21 other deceased American POWs who died during the 24 hour period. After the war, all the remains in the Cabanatuan Prison cemetery that could be found were disinterred (between December 1945 - February 1946) and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands. The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948 for positive identification. Unfortunately, no clothing, personal effects nor any other means of identification were found for him and his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan. Ten of the remains in Grave 1017 were identified in 1951, 11 were not able to be positively identified including Harold. He most likely is buried in the Manila American Cemetery as a "Known but to God". There are 953 men like Tec/5 Yankelevitz who were not identified after the war, "unknowns", permanently interred in the Manila American Cemetery from Cabanatuan.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Awards: Purple Heart.
Harold was a member of the Beth Jacob Orthodox Jewish Congregation in Cumberland, Maryland.
Harold Yankelevitz (23, 19 March 1917, Keyser, West Virginia), a resident of 502 N. Centre St., Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 1034, Order No. 2584) on 16 October 1940 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. He was unemployed. Harold listed his sister, Mrs. Harry Pierce, as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5' 10" in height, 162 lbs., with a dark complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Harold Yankelevitz (1917 West Virginia), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13023389) in the U.S. Army Air Corps on 03 June 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia. He was single and had completed 4 years of high school.
Private Yankelevitz was sent to Bolling Field in Washington, D.C. for training and then on to Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.He was assigned to the 91st Bomber Squadron, 27th Bomber Group, Light, U.S. Army Air Corps. He was promoted in early October 1941 to Private First Class while stationed at Savannah.
The 27th Bombardment Group was the first assigned unit to the new Hunter Army Airfield in 1940. In 1941, the group was reequipped with Douglas A-24 Banshee Dive Bombers, and on 21 October 1941 the 27th was ordered to the Philippine Islands in response to the growing crisis in the Pacific.
Cumberlander Is Jap Prisoner In Philippines
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Yankelevitz, 502 North Centre street, have been notified that their son, Private First Class Harold Yankelevitz, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, is a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Corregidor. He had been reported as "missing" last month by the War Department.
The young soldier enlisted last June 2 and served at Bolling Field and in Georgia before being transferred in November to the Philippines. He is a graduate of Allegany High School, where he was a member of the basketball team. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 June 1942, page 13.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz (S/N 13023389), 91st Bomber Squadron, died at 1:00 pm on 22 July 1942 of malaria and nutritional edema, in Barracks No. 16, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1107th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men from Bataan.
He was buried in a communal grave No. 1017 in the camp cemetery along with 21 other deceased American POWs who died during the 24 hour period. After the war, all the remains in the Cabanatuan Prison cemetery that could be found were disinterred (between December 1945 - February 1946) and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands. The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948 for positive identification. Unfortunately, no clothing, personal effects nor any other means of identification were found for him and his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan. Ten of the remains in Grave 1017 were identified in 1951, 11 were not able to be positively identified including Harold. He most likely is buried in the Manila American Cemetery as a "Known but to God". There are 953 men like Tec/5 Yankelevitz who were not identified after the war, "unknowns", permanently interred in the Manila American Cemetery from Cabanatuan.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Awards: Purple Heart.
Harold Yankelevitz (23, 19 March 1917, Keyser, West Virginia), a resident of 502 N. Centre St., Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, signed up for his World War II Draft Registration Card (Serial No. 1034, Order No. 2584) on 16 October 1940 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. He was unemployed. Harold listed his sister, Mrs. Harry Pierce, as the person who would always know his address. He was described as 5' 10" in height, 162 lbs., with a dark complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
Harold Yankelevitz (1917 West Virginia), a resident of Allegany County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13023389) in the U.S. Army Air Corps on 03 June 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia. He was single and had completed 4 years of high school.
Private Yankelevitz was sent to Bolling Field in Washington, D.C. for training and then on to Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.He was assigned to the 91st Bomber Squadron, 27th Bomber Group, Light, U.S. Army Air Corps. He was promoted in early October 1941 to Private First Class while stationed at Savannah.
The 27th Bombardment Group was the first assigned unit to the new Hunter Army Airfield in 1940. In 1941, the group was reequipped with Douglas A-24 Banshee Dive Bombers, and on 21 October 1941 the 27th was ordered to the Philippine Islands in response to the growing crisis in the Pacific.
Cumberlander Is Jap Prisoner In Philippines
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Yankelevitz, 502 North Centre street, have been notified that their son, Private First Class Harold Yankelevitz, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, is a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Corregidor. He had been reported as "missing" last month by the War Department.
The young soldier enlisted last June 2 and served at Bolling Field and in Georgia before being transferred in November to the Philippines. He is a graduate of Allegany High School, where he was a member of the basketball team. Source: Cumberland Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 June 1942, page 13.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz (S/N 13023389), 91st Bomber Squadron, died at 1:00 pm on 22 July 1942 of malaria and nutritional edema, in Barracks No. 16, Hospital Area, a prisoner of the Japanese at POW Camp 1. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 25 men to die that day, the 1107th prisoner to die in the Camp 1 since it opened in June 1942. In all 786 men died in Cabanatuan during the month of July, 1942. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men from Bataan.
He was buried in a communal grave No. 1017 in the camp cemetery along with 21 other deceased American POWs who died during the 24 hour period. After the war, all the remains in the Cabanatuan Prison cemetery that could be found were disinterred (between December 1945 - February 1946) and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands. The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948 for positive identification. Unfortunately, no clothing, personal effects nor any other means of identification were found for him and his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan. Ten of the remains in Grave 1017 were identified in 1951, 11 were not able to be positively identified including Harold. He most likely is buried in the Manila American Cemetery as a "Known but to God". There are 953 men like Tec/5 Yankelevitz who were not identified after the war, "unknowns", permanently interred in the Manila American Cemetery from Cabanatuan.
Technician Fifth Grade Harold Yankelevitz is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Awards: Purple Heart.
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