4020th Army Air Forces Base Unit https://www.abmc.gov/ en Lawrence F. Holding https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/holding%3Dlawrence <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Lawrence F. Holding</span> <div class="field field--name-field-war field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><div about="https://www.abmc.gov/db-war-code/world-war-ii" id="taxonomy-term-64549" class="taxonomy-term vocabulary-db-war-code"> <div class="war"> <div class="field field--name-name field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">World War II</div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-ribbon field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="https://www.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/worldwar2.png" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="https://www.abmc.gov/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">abmc-0525</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 12/26/2016 - 19:53</span> <div class="field field--name-field-service-number field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">O-535205</div> <div class="field field--name-field-rank field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="https://www.abmc.gov/db-rank/first-lieutenant" hreflang="en">First Lieutenant</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-branch-of-service field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">U.S. Army Air Forces</div> <div class="field field--name-field-abmc-burial-unit field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="https://www.abmc.gov/db-abmc-burial-unit/4020th-army-air-forces-base-unit" hreflang="en">4020th Army Air Forces Base Unit</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-place-of-entry field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">North Carolina</div> <div class="field field--name-field-dod-month field--type-list-integer field--label-hidden field__item">May</div> <div class="field field--name-field-dod-day field--type-list-integer field--label-hidden field__item">13</div> <div class="field field--name-field-dod-year field--type-integer field--label-hidden field__item">1945</div> <div class="field field--name-field-missing-status field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Recovered</div> <div class="field field--name-field-buried-text field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Memorialized</div> <div class="field field--name-field-memorialized-text field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">Walls of the Missing</div> <div class="field field--name-field-cemetery field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div about="https://www.abmc.gov/db-cemetery/manila-american-cemetery" id="taxonomy-term-93802" class="taxonomy-term vocabulary-db-cemetery"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-cemetery-or-memorial field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <article data-history-node-id="14289" about="https://www.abmc.gov/Manila" class="node node--type-cemetery-or-memorial node--view-mode-location"> <div><a href="https://www.abmc.gov/Manila"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Manila American Cemetery </span> </a></div> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-monument-location-address field--type-address field--label-hidden field__item"><p class="address" translate="no"> Manila American Cemetery <br /> McKinley Road, Fort Bonifacio <br /> 1634 <br /> Philippines </p> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-army-awards field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><div about="https://www.abmc.gov/db-awards-army/purple-heart" id="taxonomy-term-63520" class="taxonomy-term vocabulary-db-awards-army"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-award-parent field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div about="https://www.abmc.gov/db-awards-parent/purple-heart" id="taxonomy-term-63179" class="taxonomy-term vocabulary-db-awards-parent"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-ribbon field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="https://www.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/purple%20heart-ribbon.png" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-medal field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="https://www.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/purple%20heart-medal.png" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-name field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Purple Heart</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-text field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Purple Heart</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-notes field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Notes</div> <div class="field__item"><p>1st Lt. Holding is one of 18 servicemen and women killed in an aircraft crash in a remote part of Papua New Guiana on May 13, 1945. Initially buried in field graves near the crash site, their remains were not recovered by the War Department until more than a decade after the war. Once recovered and identified, all 18 were interred as a group burial in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis. Missouri. Their names are permanently engraved on the Walls of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery.</p> </div> </div> Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:53:28 +0000 abmc-0525 533156 at https://www.abmc.gov