Hartford Hardie Vereen was born on April 3, 1909 in Florida. He was the son of Jeremiah Cookson Vereen and Agnes Watt Hardie Vereen. LTC Vereen, a member of the original Eighth AAF in Britain, entered the Army as a Second Lieutenant in March 1942, while at the University of Michigan law school. He went overseas in the Air Intelligence Service. LTC Vereen died from injuries received in a plane crash over Ireland on November 26, 1944, at the age of 35. His remains were buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and his remains were exhumed and transferred. He is buried now in the Miami City Cemetery, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA.
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