Killed In Action

Ira P. MCDOWELL

Honored by Melissa MCDOWELL,
Family member 

Unit : Unit Unknow, 358th Field Artillery Battalion

Rank : 1st Lieutenant  

Killed on March 5, 1945 at Rheinhausen (Germany)

 

Activity during World War Two :

Forward Observer in a Piper Cub, shot down by a Messerschmitt near the Rhine.

Campaigns : Rhineland.

 

Medals :

Purple Heart Air Medal World War II Victory