Date of birth:

July 19th, 1921 (Watertown/Connecticut, USA)

Date of death:

December 16th, 2014 (Essex/Connecticut, USA)

Nationality:

American

"In 1941 while still a student at Yale, Howe tried enlisting with the American Field Service (AFS), a volunteer ambulance organization serving with the French military overseas. The German occupation of France prevented Howe's initial service with AFS, however, until AFS realigned their involvement to serve with the British military instead. Howe reapplied as an ambulance driver and left for the Middle East with AFS unit ME 2, and served during the African Campaign in the Western Desert and the Italian Campaign. He was made a section leader, promoted to lieutenant, and then shortly after the Battle of El Alamein he took charge of the 11 Company (Coy), which was later rechristened as 567 Coy. Howe was medically discharged from AFS in December 1943 after the Sangro River fighting along the Italian east coast."

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• - AFS Letters Victory Edition
  - Arthur Howe Jr., prescient on coeducation, dies at 93 - Yale Daily News
  - AFS Archives