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PVT Howard Harper Veteran

Birth: 15 Jul 1916
Rockcastle County, Kentucky, USA
Death: 30 Apr 1945 (aged 28)
Provincia di Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
Burial: Florence American Cemetery and Memorial

Florence, Città Metropolitana di Firenze, Toscana, Italy Add to Map
Plot: Tablets of the Missing
Memorial ID: 56364038 View Source

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PVT 605 FA BN 10 MT DIV OHIO

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Entered the service from Ohio.

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Lorene Nicely Manus

1917–2007 (m. 1936)

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Billie Jean Harper Caldwell

1945–2015

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WWII vets hope lake in Italy yields GIs' remains
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Somewhere on the bottom of Italy's largest lake lie the remains of two dozen American soldiers who died when their amphibious vehicle sank in 1945 in the waning days of the fighting in Europe during World War II.

An American amphibious vehicle crosses an Italian lake during World War II. A volunteer group's discovery of what could be the wreckage of such a vehicle 900 feet below the surface of Italy's Lake Garda has given aging veterans hope that, after nearly seven decades, the remains of their comrades can finally be brought home for a proper burial. (AP Photo/Bill Thompson, The Denver Public Library, Western History Collection/Genealogy Department)
A volunteer group's discovery of what could be the wreckage 900 feet down in Lake Garda has given aging veterans hope that, after nearly seven decades, the remains of their comrades can finally come home.
"If you talk to the World War II guys, they're looking for closure and they haven't got it," said retired Army Col. Michael Plummer, president of the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division, the Army unit that battled the Germans in northern Italy until the last week of the war.
Of the association's nearly 1,200 members, about a third served during World War II.
"We seem to save any single soldier or find anybody in the wilds of Borneo or the mountains, and we thought it was very bad that the United States wasn't doing anything for these guys," said 89-year-old Jerry Nash, of Hudson, N.H.
Nash was laying communication wire as the 10th Mountain pursued German forces into northern Italy's rugged alpine region, home to the 50-mile-long Lake Garda. W

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Below is the list of the 24 soldiers in the 10th Mountain Division who died when their amphibious vehicle sank in Italy's Lake Garda on April 30, 1945, during World War II. An asterisk indicates soldier's hometown isn't available.
Pfc. Walter J. Armstrong, Placerville, Calif.
Cpl. William P. Armstrong, Terre Haute, Ind.
Pvt. Merle Britton, Ashland, Ohio
Cpl. Maximo L. Champion, Livingston, Calif.
Pfc. Willard E. Chapman, Washington, Ohio
Pfc. Jerry T. Dillard, Plainview, Texas
Cpl. Emory E. Hamilton, Kentucky(asterisk)
Pvt. Howard Harper, My Vernon Ky
Cpl. James Harwell, Georgia(asterisk)
Pvt. James Hilley, Calhoun Falls, S.C.
Pfc. Leroy A. King, Indiana(asterisk)
Pfc. Edward Koskela, Minnesota(asterisk)
Pfc. Stanley R. Lad, Illinois(asterisk)
Cpl. William E. Madara, Pottsville, Pa.
Pfc. Frank J. Miller, Eau Claire, Wis.
Pvt. William C. Morrison, Terre Haute, Ind.
Pvt. Roger L. Murray, Missouri(asterisk)
Pfc. Elmer C. Paulson, Frederic, Wis.
Pfc. Xwell Y. Reynolds, Marietta, Ohio
Pfc. Gayle W. Russell Jr., Ellis, Kan.
Pfc. Norman B. Russell, Arkansas(asterisk)
Pvt. Frank Tame, Greenville, Tenn.
Pfc. Charles E. Tannehill, Gilboa, Ohio
Pfc. Richard Wright, Nevada(asterisk)

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Monument in Torbole, Lake Garda, Italy to the 25 men who died when their DUKW sank.

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