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Personal info

Full name
HIGDON, Howard Jerome
Date of birth
17 May 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Clarkson, Grayson County, Kentucky
Hometown
Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35816415
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Rimschweiler-Zweibrücken, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
G 13 18

Immediate family

Members
Dent Higdon (father)
Mrytle (Hill) Higdon (mother)
Thomas Higdon (brother)
Newman Higdon (brother)
Geraldine Higdon (sister)
Frankie M. Higdon (sister)
Alfred Higdon (brother)
Henry L. Higdon (brother)

More information

Pvt Howard J. Higdon was employed by the Standard Sanitary Corporation.

He enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 12 August 1944.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
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