Name:
William Q. Howell
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
35696162
Unit:
358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1945-05-01
State:
Sounth Carolina
Cemetery:
Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, France
Plot:
B
Row:
28
Grave:
27
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
William Howell was born on April 17, 1924 and was from Greenwood County, SC.
He served in the 358th Infantry Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division “Tough Ombres” in WW2. On May 1, 1945 while liberating the town of Díly, in the present day Czech Republic, he was killed in action. The town of Díly, in the Pilsen Region of Czech, remembers him and his fellow five soldiers killed on that day with a memorial in front of the Church Sv. Cyrila a Metodeje (St. Cyril and Methodius).