World War II Honoree

Richard Alexander Wentz, Sr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Hamlet, North Carolina

Honored By

Harriet Wentz McKenzie and Richard A Wentz, Jr.

Relationship

Children

Trained in San Diego and Nebraska. He was then deployed to England as an engineer to build airfields. His most vivid memories were the Buzz Bombs in London and D-Day. How the skies were filled with wave after wave of planes of all description. What planes that did return were so badly shot up that you could see all the way through the whole plane.