Sergeant Harold Wenrich Light, who was previously reported missing in action, is now listed as killed in action, according to a telegram his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Light, Fairview Heights, Lebanon R. D. 4, received yesterday from the War Department. Sergeant Light, a turret gunner on a Flying Fortress, was reported as missing on September 5. That telegram was received on September 23. Yesterday's War Department wire said he was killed on September 11. How he could have been missing on September 6 and killed on September 11 was not explained. A letter from the Army Air Force written to the dead airman's family stated that his plane collided in mid air with another American plane in a raid over Brest, France, on September 5. Only one crew member was seen to parachute to safety, the letter declared. Sergeant Light, who is the 76th Lebanon County serviceman to lose his life as the result of action against the enemy during the present conflict, was inducted on March 19, 1943. He took his basic training at Camp Davis, North Carolina, and the July, 1944, was sent to England, where he was based when the fatal crash occurred. A graduate of Lebanon High School in the class of 1942, he was employed at the Lebanon Steel Foundry before his Induction. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of this city. In addition to his parents, he is survived by a brother, Albert G. Light, at home. [Lebanon Daily News, November 8, 1944]
Sergeant Harold Wenrich Light, who was previously reported missing in action, is now listed as killed in action, according to a telegram his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Light, Fairview Heights, Lebanon R. D. 4, received yesterday from the War Department. Sergeant Light, a turret gunner on a Flying Fortress, was reported as missing on September 5. That telegram was received on September 23. Yesterday's War Department wire said he was killed on September 11. How he could have been missing on September 6 and killed on September 11 was not explained. A letter from the Army Air Force written to the dead airman's family stated that his plane collided in mid air with another American plane in a raid over Brest, France, on September 5. Only one crew member was seen to parachute to safety, the letter declared. Sergeant Light, who is the 76th Lebanon County serviceman to lose his life as the result of action against the enemy during the present conflict, was inducted on March 19, 1943. He took his basic training at Camp Davis, North Carolina, and the July, 1944, was sent to England, where he was based when the fatal crash occurred. A graduate of Lebanon High School in the class of 1942, he was employed at the Lebanon Steel Foundry before his Induction. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of this city. In addition to his parents, he is survived by a brother, Albert G. Light, at home. [Lebanon Daily News, November 8, 1944]
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