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Allan Wilford Howerton
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Allan Wilford Howerton was a company communications sergeant with the 84th Infantry Division and was in combat during the last six months of the war in Europe. Before assignment to the 84th Division he was a student at Drexel University in the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). Following VE-Day he studied at Shrivenham American University in England. After the war he attended the University of Denver earning a B.A. degree in international relations and a M.A. in education plus graduate study in economics. He had a long career as a federal civil servant with the U.S. Civil Service Commission. He was Vice Chairman of the Fairfax County (Virginia) Civil Service Commission; a founder, general manager, and talk-show host of a local cable television channel; and has served as a vestryman and long-time lector at St. Luke´s Episcopal Church (Alexandria, VA).

Mr. Howerton is the author of “Dear Captain, et al.: the Agonies and the Ecstasies of War and Memory, a Memoir from World War II” and its sequel, a novel titled "War´s Wake" that takes the story through the immediate postwar years. He and his wife, Joan, a registered nurse, live in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Author´s Message Board, 84thInfantry Railsplitters

Author´s Message Board, WW II Love Stories

Allan Wilford Howerton Book Reviews

More on "Dear Captain, et al." with Photographs

Howerton story excerpt from "Over Here: How the GI Bill Transformed the American Dream" by Edward Humes



Books:
Dear Captain, et al. (The Agonies and the Ecstasies of War and Memory
A Memoir From World War II)
War's Wake (How a GI-Bill veteran and a sophomore lost their way in the time of Harry Truman and Alger Hiss and fell into paradise on a magical island in Washington Park)
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