Alfonso O. Duran

World War II
Service #18121469
Unit724th Bomber Squadron, 451st Bomber Group, Heavy
RankSergeant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From New Mexico
Date of DeathFebruary 25 1944
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Notes

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sgt. Alfonso O. Duran were accounted for in 2018. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Walls of the Missing” at Florence American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.