LtCol Leslie Earl Harris, Jr

AC-47D Spooky Gunship Crewmember

LtCol Leslie Earl Harris Jr. was a WW II veteran with service in Burma and India. He served as an enlisted man in the Army Air Corps. After the war, he attended the USMA at West Point, New York, and graduated in 1949. He took a commission in the United States Air Force. He became a B-50 pilot and was involved in a crash of a B-50 in the United Kingdom on June 8, 1951. He walked away from the crash. He served in Korea and also served at various Air Force bases across the country. He attended Air Force schools including the Air Force Command and General Staff College. He served four years in the Pentagon before being assigned to Vietnam. He had family in San Angelo, Texas, and had served at Goodfellow Air Force Base. While he was in Vietnam, his family remained in San Angelo. He was flying a mission out of Phu Cat AFB on "Spooky", an AC-47D gunship when his aircraft was shot down and all members of the crew perished.

After his death his family remained in San Angelo. Harris Hall at Goodfellow AFB is named in his honor.

This information courtesy of the following two websites.

LtCol Leslie Harris's information at www.virtualwall.com.