Richard D. Brown

Korean War
Service #AF25909611
RankStaff Sergeant U.S. Air Force
Date of DeathMay 14 1953
National Defense Service Medal
Staff Sergeant Brown was awarded the National Defense Service Medal.
Notes
Staff Sergeant Brown was the turret system gunner of a B-29 Superfortress Bomber with the 582nd Air Rescue Squadron, 582nd Air Rescue Wing, based at Great Falls Air Force Base, Montana. He was a member of the 1300th Training Group. On May 14, 1953, he was enroute to Lake Charles Air Force Base, Louisiana on a routine training flight. The aircraft crashed about eight miles from Sargent, Nebraska killing nine personnel.