Howarth was 23, a boyishly handsome Army Air Forces corporal from Wausaukee, Wisconsin. Quiet and thoughtful, five-foot-seven and 130 pounds soaking wet, Howarth had soulful dark eyes and a serious set to his mouth. Born in a log cabin built by his logger father, Howarth was the second of four brothers who grew up hunting deer and living off the land. In winter, their cabin was cut off by heavy snow, and he and his brothers had to ski several miles each way to school. Howarth enlisted in early 1942 after working his way through La Crosse (Wisc.) Teachers College by washing dishes in local restaurants. After the war, he hoped to be a drama teacher or possibly an actor. Several months after joining the military, Howarth married his former landlady. Howarth was a radioman in the Air Transport Command, a unit whose job was to ferry planes to and from bases in the United States and overseas. He was on his first overseas trip in November 1942 when a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber his crew was delivering to England was diverted to search for a downed cargo plane on the East Coast of Greenland. When the B-17 crashed, too, Howarth earned his crewmates' undying respect by suffering through frozen fingers to rebuild their broken radio and call for help. When a motorsled driver trying to rescue the crew fell into a crevasse, Howarth rushed to meet Pritchard and Bottoms in the Grumman Duck to ask them to quickly return to the Northland for help. The obituary in his local newspaper declared: "The sadness and sacrifice of war has fallen on a mother who now must carry Wausaukee's first gold star. Taps for Corporal Loren Howarth, a fine boy and a hero." In 1951, a VFW post in Illinois was named for him.

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