Howard, Fred (32799358): Difference between revisions
Add/cite Bauer film press photo (TANGRAM); set profile photo if higher-res |
Add Stern–Howard Soviet-uniform ruse; cite Aughinbaugh 2018 |
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|class_section=5A | |class_section=5A | ||
|class_rank= | |class_rank=Private First Class | ||
|birth_year=1922 | |birth_year=1922 | ||
|death_year=2008 | |death_year=2008 | ||
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|overseas=Y | |overseas=Y | ||
|birth_place=Silesia, Germany | |birth_place=Silesia, Germany | ||
|rank_final= | |rank_final=Technician Third Grade | ||
|birth_date=16 June 1922 | |birth_date=16 June 1922 | ||
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Howard joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and trained at Camp Ritchie as an interrogator. In 1944 he returned to Europe and worked interrogating German prisoners of war in a team with fellow Ritchie Boy [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]]. After the war he returned to the United States and built a career as a designer and businessman. | Howard joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and trained at Camp Ritchie as an interrogator. In 1944 he returned to Europe and worked interrogating German prisoners of war in a team with fellow Ritchie Boy [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]]. After the war he returned to the United States and built a career as a designer and businessman. | ||
Near the end of the fighting in Europe, Howard and Stern used a well-known interrogation ploy: one of them posed in captured Soviet uniform so that uncooperative prisoners faced the threat of transfer to Russian custody if they refused to talk to the Americans. | |||
== Research notes == | == Research notes == | ||
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* Ritchie Boy | * Ritchie Boy | ||
* Display company owner; invented L’Eggs pantyhose | * Display company owner; invented L’Eggs pantyhose | ||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
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Howard, Fred (32799358).jpg|Earlier profile photograph (retained after press-photo update) | Howard, Fred (32799358).jpg|Earlier profile photograph (retained after press-photo update) | ||
Documentary Ritchie Boys VE Day Stern Sears Howard press.jpg|Ritchie Boys team on V-E Day, 8 May 1945 — Guy Stern, Walter Sears, Fred Howard (© TANGRAM; Bauer film press photo) | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
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* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/boys_howard.html The Ritchie Boys: Fred Howard] | * [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/boys_howard.html The Ritchie Boys: Fred Howard] | ||
* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html The Ritchie Boys film site — press photos] (© TANGRAM (Harald Stuckmann); high-res https://ritchieboys.com/DL/photos-highq/boys/howard.jpg) | * [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html The Ritchie Boys film site — press photos] (© TANGRAM (Harald Stuckmann); high-res https://ritchieboys.com/DL/photos-highq/boys/howard.jpg) | ||
* [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html The Ritchie Boys film site — press photos] (© TANGRAM; V-E Day team photo) | |||
* [https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ghj/vol17/iss1/5 Kevin M. Aughinbaugh, “The Castle of Intelligence: Camp Ritchie Maryland and the Military Intelligence Training Center during the Second World War,” ''The Gettysburg Historical Journal'' 17 (2018), art. 5] ([https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1201&context=ghj PDF]) | |||