Richard Ewing Findley

Plot Number: Sec B, Site 12

Born: August 17, 1922, in Greybull, WY

War Served: World War II

Rank: Staff Sergeant

Branch: Air Force

Medals Awarded: Air Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Prisoner of War Medal

Died: August 10, 2001, in Columbia, MO

Notes: Served as an aerial photographer on a B-17, was shot down during D-Day and bailed out of the plane before it crashed, was captured as a prisoner of war in Poland for a year, worked as an educator for the Kansas Public Schools