World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
Richard Lewis Hancock
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Danbury, Connecticut
Honored By
Ms. Joan Hancock Laskowski
Relationship
Daughter
Flew 39 missions, B-17 'My Achin' Back'. Shot down over Austria, spent 15 months in German prison camp. Received Purple Heart and other medals. Wrote chapter 'Forced March' in book entitled 'Behind Barbed Wire' by Lieutenant Morris J. Roy and Richard D. Smith, New York 1946.