Houston Akins was born in 1923 in Georgia to Stanley Earnest Akins and Sallie B. Patterson.
Campaigns: Algeria – French Morocco
Summary of Service;
Pfc. Houston C. Akins 14071587 509th PIB, Home of Record Chattanooga TN, Entered Service TN, 41 – 46, Died 19-Feb-44, page 386 book Stand in the Door by Charles H. Doyle
Pvt. Houston C. Akins A Company 509th PIB 11-Jan-44 SO 4 Removed from Jump Status
Pvt. Houston C. Akins, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 509th PIR, Home of Record Chattanooga TN, Entered Service TN, 8-Nov-42 Plane 3 Seat 11 Combat Weight 244 lbs
Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Nettuno, Italy, Plot A Row 14 Grave 12
- Rank: Private First Class
- Date of death: 19 February 1944
- County: Hamilton
- Hometown: Chattanooga
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Division/Assignment: 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
- Theater: Europe
- Conflict: World War II
- Awards: Purple Heart, Parachutist Badge
- Burial/Memorial Location: Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Nettuno, Italy
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XI, Middle Panel
- Sponsored by: Betty Pitts
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