Staff Sergeant Melvin Hurwitz, a B-17 radio operator and gunner of the B-17 “Flying Fortress”. He is one of 4 boys to a Russian immigrant family in Westminster, MD. Soon after entering college, SSGT.Hurwitz went into the U.S Army Air Corps in August 1943. He was sent to the Corps’ training centers across the U.S. He was assigned to the 863rd Bomb Squadron and 493rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force in Dill Field, FL. SSGT.Hurwitz’s unit was then deployed to England late in the war and flew 4 combat missions. His plane also dropped food supplies to the starving Dutch citizens and returned French P.O.Ws from Austria. While awaiting orders in Clovis, NM to the Pacific Theater of Operations, the war had ended. He was honorably discharged from the military in 1945.
Original Record date: 1-29-22
