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Casualty Info
Home Town Kansas City
Last Address Bakersfield, California
Casualty Date Sep 29, 1950
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Unknown, Not Reported
Location Korea
Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Belmont Memorial Park - Fresno, California
Col Howard A. Duck graduated from Fresno State College in 1933. He served in the California National Guard, Coast Artillery Corps, until it was Federalized in 1941. He was a Captain by April 1942.
Lt. Col. Duck was sent overseas in April 1943, with the 8th Amphibious Force. Serving as a communications and operations officer, he was awarded the European ribbon with battle stars for Sicily, Naples-Foggia ,and southern France ;and the Asiatic- Pacific ribbon for Pacific service and the Japanese Occupation Medal. Service from 1941 - 1946.
(In August 1944, he sailed from Naples, Italy with what would become the Invasion Force that landed on Southern France in Operation Dragoon (Aboard the USS Biscayne (AVP-11, later AGC-18, as part of the Amphibious Group 2, 8th Amphibious Force, Communications Group Staff, (8th PHIBRON i.e. Amphibious Squadron).
He left active duty in 1946 at Camp Beale, California. He then lived and worked in Bakersfield, California where he worked in the engineering department of what was then Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.
He had been recalled to service in December 1948.
He and his family, a wife and two children, were living in Osaka, Japan at the time his unit was transferred to South Korea in June 1950.
