Receive
Posthumous
Purple Heart For
Pvt H. J. Alfrey
Mrs. Donna
Belle Alfrey, 2734 South Tenth street, has received the posthumous
purple heart award to her husband, Pvct Howard J. Alfrey, who was killed
in action in Belgium on December 27.
Private Alfrey, who was a paratrooper-demolitionist, entered the
service in December 1943, and arrived overseas last September. He
was a graduate of Lincoln high school
[The Lincoln Star, Lincoln, NE, Thursday, July 13, 1944,
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