Rank and Name, Second Lieutenant Howard David Rinehart.
Unit/Placed in, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division “Red Arrow”.
Howard is born on 19 September 1921.
Father, David Peterson Rinehart.
Mother, Nanny Edith (Jackson) Rinehart.
Sister(s), Edith Lorene and Ellen L. Rinehart.
Brother(s), Albert Frederick and Donald Chester Rinehart.
Spouse, Margaret Marie (Harris) Rinehart.
Daughter, Nancy Rinehart.
Son, Baby Rinehart.
Steph sons, Jackie David and Robert Galen Mc Tigue.
Howard enlisted the service in Indiana with service number # O-1300385.
Howard was KIA in fights with the Japanese to protecting the Company Crew near the Lonoy Road Junction on 14 Dec. 1944, he is honored with a Silver Star Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Howard was first buried at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Howard is in 1949 reburied at Tahoma Cemetery, Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, USA.
Thanks to, http://www.32nd-division.org/
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
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POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
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Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
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Silver Star awarded (posthumly) to Rinehart, Howard D.
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army
127TH Infantry Regiment, 32D ‘Red Arrow’ Infantry Division
“Howard D. Rinehart, United States Army, is reported to have been awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with the 32d Infantry Division during World War II.”
General Orders: Headquarters, 32d Infantry Division, General Orders No. 47 (1945)
Born: 19 September 1921, Home of Record: Yakima, Washington
Death: 14 December 1944 Status: KIA
at Leyte, Philippines
Interred: Tahoma Cemetery, Yakima, Washington
Married, father of 1; enlisted in Wash. Nat. Guard; Pfc. in Co. H, 161ST Inf., 41ST Div., Yakima, WA, when mobilized 16 Sep. ‘40; commissioned at some point; SN O-1300385.
