• July 22, 1921 – July 7, 1944
• Born in Knoxville, Tennessee
• Business Administration 1940-1941
• Technical Sergeant – Army Air Corps
• B-17 ball turret gunner, 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group. Mid-air collision with another B-17; crashed at Withersfield, southeast of Cambridge, Suffolk. Six airmen KIA.
• Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridgeshire, England

Joel “Jack” Dyer Huff (July 22, 1921 – July 7, 1944) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was in his first-year of attendance at the University of Tennessee for Business Administration in 1941 when the war began. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and was trained under the rank of Technical Sergeant as a ball turret gunner on B-17 bombers. He was assigned to the European Theater with the 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group, flying out of England. On July 7, 1944, TSgt Jack Huff was killed when his B-17 collided mid-air with another B-17 while the 384th was assembling for a bombing mission on Leipzig, Germany, and crashed near Withersfield, southeast of Cambridge. He is buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridgeshire, England.

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