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World War II Honoree

Killed in World War II

Richard Conant Babb

Hometown

Brookline, Massachusetts

Honored By

A Grateful American

Branch Seal
Activity During WWII

AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN, HELD THE RANK OF FLIGHT SERGEANT AND SERVED AS A PILOT IN THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE. KILLED IN A FLYING ACCIDENT AT THE AGE OF 26 WHILE ATTACHED TO NO. 5 GLIDER TRAINING SCHOOL, ROYAL AIR FORCE (ARMY CO-OPERATION COMMAND) WHEN HIS MILES M.9 MASTER MK II (DL517) CRASHED NEAR LOWER BURTON, DILWYN, HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND ON JULY 16, 1943. BURIED AT HAYCOMBE CEMETERY, BATH, SOMERSET, ENGLAND. COMMEMORATED AT THE MEMORIAL CHURCH OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY (CLASS OF 1939), CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.