Captain Richard Burre Prentiss was born on Feb 2nd, 1916 in Burlington, Vermont. His parents are Orlow Frederick Prentiss and Marjorie Burre Elmo. His father, Orlow was born on Sep 27th, 1884 in Franklin, Vermont and died on Jul 13th, 1963 in Burlington, Vermont. His occupation was an optometrist . His mother, Marjorie was born on Jul 1885 in Banger , Maine and died on 1953 in Bradenton, Florida. Her occupation was a lodging house keeper. Richard siblings are Robert and Barbara Prentiss.

Richard enlisted on Oct 16th, 1940 in Burlington, Vermont at the age of 24. His highest education was that he graduated from college and his occupation was a service man and his employer was student of Syracuse University. Richard served in the army air forces with the unit 9th air force, 416th bomber group, 668th bomber squadron . His service number is 0-789200. Richard died on Dec 25th, 1944 in Belgium, Germany. Richard was buried in Henri- Chapelle, Cemetery and his grave number is G 14 15. Airplane hit by an enemy anti-aircraft caught on fire . The airplane went down to the ground with the left wing shot off. The plane crashed before it could reach its target near Losheim, Germany. All 4 crew members were killed. Richard was awarded with the purple heart, 1 silver , 4 bronze, air medal,

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American air museum in Britain

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Family trees on ancestry.com

1940 cense

World War 2 young man draft card

Written by Sierra Paul This story is part of the Stories Behind the Stars project ( see www.storiesbehindthestars.org). This is a national effort of volunteers to write the stories of all 400,000+ of the US WW2 fallen here on Fold3. Can you help write these stories? Related to this, there will be a smart phone app that will allow people to visit any war memorial or cemetery, scan the fallen’s name and read his/her story.

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