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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.

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 ==

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* Ritchie Boy

* Display company owner; invented L’Eggs pantyhose

* Portrait and summary from Notable Ritchie Boys slides ( )

== Gallery ==

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* [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])

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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.
+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 ==
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 * Ritchie Boy
 * Display company owner; invented L’Eggs pantyhose
-* Portrait and summary from Notable Ritchie Boys slides ( )
 == Gallery ==
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 * [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])