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Howard Wade Ritchie
Arrived Normandy, France D-day +19 in 1944. Was on USS Eisenhower. Assigned communications group; 456 Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, AAA Battery B, US Army; Inducted Oct 26, 1942 in Ft. McPherson, Atlanta, GA, discharged Oct 28, 1945 in Atlanta, GA. Army serial #34-396-560, PVT 1st class. In battles & campaigns: Normandy GO33WD45; Northern France--Central Europe GO46WD45; Ardennes--Rhineland GO40WD45. Received Good Conduct medal AR600-6B; also received European-Africian-Middle Eastern Service Medal with one silver star.
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2. http://navysite.de/cvn/cvn69.html
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