Harry was born on January 22, 1921. He was the son of Harry and Marietta Stiner of 508 Ontario Avenue, Renovo, PA.

Harry was a CPL in the US Army Air Corps. He died on June 28, 1943, in the South Pacific. He was awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster Air Medal posthumously and it was presented on the day of his mother’s funeral, July 28, 1943.

Ironically enough, Arthur Pierson, also from Renovo ran into Harry R. Stiner on a refueling island in the Pacific, approximately a three-block long island in the Pacific Ocean right before they perished in two separate plane crashes. They perished under similar circumstances on Funafuti in the South Pacific.

Of historical interest, Harry Stiner served in the Pacific. The US War Department in the 1940s tended to assign Jewish service members to the Pacific Theatre rather than in Europe due to concern over what might happen if they were to become prisoners of Nazi Germany.