Howard Ray Holley
1921-1944
Top photo shared by Vickie Graves Jones
Howard Ray Holley was born September 23, 1921 in Sebastian Co., Ar. to
Ray Webster & Esther Spain Holley.
Howard enlisted in the US Army November 13, 1942 at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ne served with the 406th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Infantry Division.
The 102nd Infantry Division, under the command of Major General Frank A. Keating,
arrived on the Western Front in the European Theater of Operations (ETO)
at Cherbourg, France, 23 September 1944, and, after a short period of training
near Valognes, moved to the German-Netherlands border. On 26 October, elements
attached to other divisions entered combat and on 3 November the division assumed
responsibility for the sector from the Wurm to Waurichen.
November 23, 1944 Pfc Howard Ray Holley was killed in action.
His burial was in the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial.
Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands.
Biography shared by Vickie Graves Jones
from Fighting Men of Arkansas
 
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