Courtesy of the West Virginia Veterans Database:
War: WWII
Last Name: Hash, Jr.
First Name: Alexander
Middle Name or Initial: Jackson
Sex: M
County: Cabell
Community: Huntington, West Virginia
Branch of Service: Army Air Corps
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number: 0823068
Date of Death: 18 December 1944
Place of Death: Reims, France
Cause of Death: KIA – Plane Crash
Place of Burial: Arlington National Cemetery
Unit: 9th. Airforce in France
Spouse: Betty Roehm
Date of Marriage:
Source: Pentagon form. Obituarary from the Charleston Gazette 10 January 1945 Huntington Herald-Dispatch 1945/01/12; copy of telegram
Notes: Graduate of Huntington Central High School, Marshall College and the Central Academy of Commercial Art, Cincinnati
HASH, ALEXANDER J JR
2ND LT AF 9TH ARMY A F 406 FIGHTER GP 513 FIGHTER SQDN
VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown
DATE OF INTERMENT: 12/29/1948
BURIED AT: SECTION 12 SITE 8214
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Michael Robert Patterson was born in Arlington and is the son of a former officer of the US Army. So it was no wonder that sooner or later his interests drew him to American history and especially to American military history. Many of his articles can be found on renowned portals like the New York Times, Washingtonpost or Wikipedia.
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