Loveless Richard Vincent

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Richard Vincent Loveless is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Four B17 Crashes Monument -Yonne

Name:

Richard Vincent Loveless

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-736778

Unit:

560th Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group

Date of Death:

2003-10-14

State:

Washington D.C.

Cemetery:

Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA

Plot:

Section 1

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Grave:

Decoration:

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Bombardier of the B-17 Bomber Slightly Dangerous, taken off from Knettingshall on a mission to Stuttgart, was hit by anti-aircraft fire and attacked by six fighters, shooting four of them down. It crashed at Chapelle-Champigny, damaging a house. The lady-owner was killed. Two members, after successful parachute jumps, got back to England, two others were taken prisoners by the Germans but five others were killed in the crash. Loveless was taken prisoner and at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan-Silesia