Howard Cokonougher Military Grave Marker

HOWARD WILLIAM COKONOUGHER.    

This bronze military veteran's marker is on the grave of my father, Howard "Bill" Cokonougher, in South Salem Cemetery in South Salem, Ohio. The marker reads "HOWARD W COKONOUGHER  PFC US ARMY  WORLD WAR II  AUG 14 1922  DEC 5 1984".  My father served as a Rifleman in Troop E, 8th Calvery of the 1st Calvery Division in the U.S. Army, and fought in battles on the Bismarck Archipelago, South Phillipines, Luzon, and New Guinea, and was awarded the Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon with 4 Bronze Stars, Phillipines Liberation Ribbon with 2 Bronze Stars, Bronze Arrowhead, and Good Conduct Ribbon.  He also has another, non-military, gravestone that is not shown here.