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Military service
Service number:
J/14171
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
106 Sqdn.
Birth:
July 16, 1919
Hancock
Enlistment:
November 1, 1941
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
July 13, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 173.
Additional information
Son of Olaf and Leila Hovinen of Wakefield, Michigan.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Melvin Olaf Hovinen
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Photo of Melvin Olaf Hovinen
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Memorial
Flying Officer Melvin Olaf Hovinen is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Melvin Olaf Hovinen is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Melvin Olaf Hovinen
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Melvin Olaf Hovinen
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Melvin Olaf Hovinen
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Melvin Olaf Hovinen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 172 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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