Howard, James, ENS

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Last Rank
Ensign
Last Primary NEC
131X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Pilot
Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
Primary Unit
1948-1966, US Air Force (USAF)
Service Years
1937 - 1941
Ensign Ensign

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Home Country
China
China
 Year of Birth
1913
 
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Contact Info
Last Address
Canton
Date of Passing
Mar 18, 1995		  

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Author of Roar of the Tiger: From Flying Tigers to Mustangs, a Figther Ace's Memoir
   
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Awarded Medal of Honor while serving with the 9th Army Air Force in Europe.

Assigned to protect a bomber mission over Germany, Colonel Howard single-handedly engaged thirty German aircraft, shooting down three with several other probables either destroyed or damaged. Before it was over, three of his guns were out of action and he was dangerously low on fuel. 

Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor in the European Theater of Operations.
   
  1941-1942, CNO - OPNAV

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Rank
[Other Service Rank]
NEC
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Base, Station or City
AVG - Flying Tigers
State/Country
China
  
 
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Type
Shore Support 		 

Parent Unit
Major Commands
Strength
Center

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Last Updated: Mar 6, 2020
   
Memories For This Unit

Other Memories
Credited with downing six Japanese aircraft while serving in China as a member of the famed Flying Tigers.
   
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Star Wing Medal
Tigers in China
82 Members Also There at Same Time
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CNO - OPNAV
Bishop, Lewis, CDR, (1937-1948) [Other Service Rank]
Hill, David, ENS, (1938-1941) [Other Service Rank]
Hollandersky, Abraham, (1904-1966) .T Sp(T) [Other Service Rank]
Mott, Charles, CAPT, (1937-1963) [Other Service Rank]
Neale, Robert, ENS, (1939-1941) [Other Service Rank]
Rector, Edward, ENS, (1939-1941) [Other Service Rank]
Rossi, John, ENS, (1939-1941) [Other Service Rank]
King, Ernest Joseph, FADM, (1897-1945) Fleet Admiral
Standley, William Harrison, ADM, (1895-1945) Admiral
Stark, Harold Rainsford, ADM, (1905-1946) Admiral
Ingersoll, Royal Eason, ADM, (1905-1946) Vice Admiral
Tarrant, William Theodore, VADM, (1894-1946) OFF Vice Admiral
Badger, Oscar Charles, ADM, (1911-1952) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Conolly, Richard Lansing, ADM, (1914-1953) OFF Rear Admiral Upper Half
Hartigan, Charles Conway, RADM, (1906-1941) OFF 111X Rear Admiral Upper Half
HOOPER, Stanford, RADM, (1905-1945) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Sharp, Alexander, VADM, (1902-1946) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Sherman, Frederick Carl, ADM, (1910-1947) OFF 131X Rear Admiral Upper Half
Turner, Richmond Kelly, ADM, (1908-1947) Rear Admiral Upper Half
Chandler, Theodore Edson, RADM, (1915-1945) OFF Captain
Cooke, Charles Maynard, ADM, (1910-1948) Captain
Denebrink, Francis Compton, VADM, (1917-1956) Captain
English, Robert Henry, RADM, (1911-1943) Captain
Ford, John, RADM, (1934-1955) Captain
Foster, Paul Frederick, VADM, (1911-1946) Captain
Hill, Harry Wilbur, ADM, (1911-1954) Captain
Kiefer, Dixie, Cmdre, (1918-1945) OFF Captain
Lee, Willis Augustus, VADM, (1904-1945) OFF 111X Captain
Martin, Charles Franklin, RADM, (1914-1946) OFF 112X Captain
McCrea, John Livingstone, VADM, (1911-1953) OFF 111X Captain
Merrill, Aaron Stanton, VADM, (1912-1947) OFF Captain
Moon, Don Pardee, RADM, (1916-1944) Captain
Rosendahl, Charles Emery, VADM, (1914-1946) Captain
Smith, Geoffrey S., CAPT, (1924-1945) OFF 00X Captain
Smith-Hutton, Henri, CAPT, (1922-1952) Captain
Strauss, Elliott Bowman, RADM, (1923-1953) OFF Captain
Struble, Arthur Dewey, ADM, (1915-1956) OFF 111X Captain
Doan, Henry Carpenter, CAPT, (1920-1953) OFF Commander
Eccles, Henry Effingham, RADM, (1922-1952) OFF Commander
Holloway, James Lemuel, ADM, (1918-1959) OFF Commander
RODGERS, Bertram, VADM, (1916-1956) Commander
Ryan Jr., Thomas John, RADM, (1921-1950) Commander
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, CDR, (1940-1964) OFF 110X Lieutenant Commander
Melson, Charles, VADM, (1927-1966) Lieutenant Commander
Miles, Milton Edward, VADM, (1917-1958) Lieutenant Commander
Parsons, Charles Thomas, CDR, (1932-1948) Lieutenant Commander
Wellings, Joseph Harold, RADM, (1921-1963) Lieutenant Commander
Bowen, Harold, VADM, (1933-1972) OFF 111X Lieutenant
Decker, Paul, LCDR, (1940-1945) OFF 1710 Lieutenant
GATES, Thomas, CAPT, (1935-1953) Lieutenant
Parsons, Charles Thomas, CDR, (1932-1948) Lieutenant
Bill, David Spencer, CAPT, (1939-1969) OFF 112X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Craven, John Harold, CAPT, (1942-1973) OFF 410X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Robinson, Gerald, LT, (1942-1945) OFF 139X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Yarris, William, LT, (1942-1945) OFF 210X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Currier, David Fletcher, LT, (1938-1943) Ensign
Frazee, Murray Bennett, CAPT, (1939-1966) OFF 117X Ensign
Hayes, Wayne, LCDR, (1941-1946) OFF 116X Ensign
Held, Edwin Charles, ENS, (1941-1942) OFF 6302 Ensign

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