Hovinen Melvin Olaf

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Melvin Olaf Hovinen is honored on the following 2 monument(s) in our database:

Melvin Olaf Hovinen Cenotaph

Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Panels

Name:

Melvin Olaf Hovinen

Rank:

Flying Officer

Serial Number:

J/14171

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Date of Death:

1943-07-13

State:

Michigan

Cemetery:

Runnymede Memorial, Englefield Green, Runnymede Borough, Surrey, England

Plot:

Panel 173

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Comments:

Melvin Olaf Hovinen was born on July 16, 1919, in Hancock, Michigan. He was the son of Olaf and Leila Hovinen of Wakefield, Michigan.

Melvin enlisted on November 1, 1941, in Windsor, Ontario. He served in the 106 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flying Officer during World War II. He was Killed in Action on July 13, 1943, when his Lancaster aircraft # DV 181 failed to return from a trip to Turin, Italy. His body was never found.

Source of information: www.veterans.gc.ca, www.findagrave.com