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Lieut Howard Joseph “Howie” Halnon

Birth: 23 May 1917
Salisbury, Addison County, Vermont, USA
Death: 12 May 1944 (aged 26)
England
Cenotaph: Saint Marys Cemetery

Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 35186320 View Source

First Lieutenant, 556th Bomber Squadron, 387th Bomber Group, Medium; U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Vermont. Missing in Action. Awarded the Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters and the Purple Heart.
Uncle Howie jumped from his plane over the English Channel to lighten the plane so that the others could make it back to land. His body has never been found. This is a cenotaph and there is another cenotaph in his memory 55877243 at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

First Lieutenant, 556th Bomber Squadron, 387th Bomber Group, Medium; U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Vermont. Missing in Action. Awarded the Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters and the Purple Heart.
Uncle Howie jumped from his plane over the English Channel to lighten the plane so that the others could make it back to land. His body has never been found. This is a cenotaph and there is another cenotaph in his memory 55877243 at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

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1st Lt.; Died overseas in the service of his country.

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Maintained by: Alan Lathrop
Originally Created by: Jen Snoots
Added: Mar 26, 2009
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35186320/howard_joseph-halnon: accessed ), memorial page for Lieut Howard Joseph “Howie” Halnon (23 May 1917–12 May 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 35186320, citing Saint Marys Cemetery, Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont, USA; Maintained by Alan Lathrop (contributor 47101383).

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