BRANCH OF SERVICE
Army Air Corps (Army Air Forces)

RANK
Sergeant - WWII

HOMETOWN
French Lick, IN

HONORED BY
Grateful American

World War II Veteran. Enlisted on 14 September 1942 at Louisville,Kentucky.Home base Molesworth, England served with the 303rd Bomb Group[Heavy] "Hell's Angels"360th Bomber Squadron.Assigned to B17G #42-5483 "Red Ass"as a waist gunner, assistance engineer.29 November 1943 on a mission to Bremen,Germany this aircraft had engine and supercharger problems over the target and was attacked by ME-210 German fighters putting 20 mm shells in to the copit killing four crewmen, six crewmen bailed out and became POW's.The plane crashed near Renslage,Germany.Howard was a POW at Stalag 2b at Hammerstein.on 20 December 1944 while participating in an escape attempt he was shot and killed
.He is buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery Liege,Belgium.