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<blockquote data-quote="Craig Robertson" data-source="post: 62543" data-attributes="member: 6852"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Alford</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leonard Willis</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Formerly 4th Raider Battalion</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>0-12889</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17th June 1945</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>25</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Garrett, Indiana</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 09.03.1920, Garrett, Indiana, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Walter Freeman Alford (1879-1944)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Blanche (nee Ayres) Alford (1878-1956)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Garrett High School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Indiana University (majored Physical Education)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>01.07.1941 draft card Garrett, Indiana</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>05.1942 entered service</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>05-11.06.1944 posthumous 2nd Silver Star awarded Okinawa (Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 17.06.1945 (Aged 25) DOW Okinawa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Attica Venice Township Joint Cemetery, Attica, Ohio, USA. Section D, Row 8, Grave 15 (Memorial)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-alford.38244/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/38/38244-5abc51799e9f72b9ed8bd58666cffe90.jpg?1681479307" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-alford-grave.38243/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/38/38243-338262d7d2b649bf5cbf969e529c58e6.jpg?1681479305" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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