Richard T. Walsh

World War II
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Fallen

County:
Ward

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
1st Lieutenant

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:
465th Bomber Squadron

Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968

Circumstances:

Passenger and sole fatality aboard A-20B Havoc #41-2989 when the twin engine attack bomber crashed into Mobile Bay, Alabama.
The airplane departed Brookley Field in Mobile, for a flight to Tallahassee, Florida, and entered a zero-visibility fog bank and flew into the surface of the water, 12 miles east-southeast of Mobile, and broke apart and settled in 4½ feet of water.

Biography:

born Fessenden, ND 6 Oct 15; resident Ward County, ND; entered AUS Miami Beach, Florida 5 Aug 42; died in service 24 Jan 43 Mobile Bay, AL; buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.