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Show Ex-Pleasant Grove Man in Veteran Air Force Unit NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William E. Harris, son of Arthur D. Harris of 210 N. Second West, Pleasant Grove, is a member of the Charleston AFB, S.C, unit that recently logged its 400,000th hour of accident-free flying time to establish estab-lish a record in the Military Airlift Command (MAC). Colonel Harris is an aircraft commander in the 76th Military Mili-tary Squadron. The unit was activated at Kelly AFB, Texas, ase a C-54 Skymaster squadron. A veteran of Air Force operations in the Antartica, Dominican Republic, Laos and the Congo, the 76th has also flown the C-131 Constellation Con-stellation and the C-130 Hercules. Her-cules. Presently the unit utilizes the C-141 Starlifter in support of global operations, including transportation of cargo and personnel to Vietnam and medical med-ical evacuees from Southeast Asia. A graduate of Pleasant Grove High School, Colonel Harris received re-ceived his B.S. degree in 1949 from Utah State University, where he was commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program. pro-gram. He also holds an MBA degree from the George Washington Wash-ington University in Washington, Washing-ton, D.C. The colonel served during World War II. His wife is the daughter of Mrs. George McMillan of 870 North 3rd East, Pleasant Grove |