Grave marker for Sgt Harry S. Higgins in Woodlawn Cemetery, Franklin (Macon county), North Carolina.

Sgt Higgins was the jumpmaster for a "stick" as he led a group of Hq 1st men into Normandy.  He was listed as Missing In Action as of D-Day, 6 June 1944. 

Higgins' status was changed to Killed In Action as of 11 July 1944 after his body was located.  This may indicate that his body was recovered quite late as the Graves Registration teams, without an eyewitness to the death on hand, used the date of recovery as the date of death.

A number of years after the war, Sgt William Goudy in a personal account for that initial day of combat stated, "I found an area where the shells had detonated among a group of paratroopers. Among the dead I found Harry Higgins' body."

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman Badge, both posthumously.