Monuments
Leiston Airfield (Station 373) 357th & 358th Fighter Groups Memorial
357th Fighter Group Roll of Honor
Richard Carlyle Smith was born on November 25, 1921, in Waterloo, Iowa. He served in the 364th Fighter Squadron, 357th Fighter Group as a First Lieutenant during World War II. He was Killed in Action near Leipzig, Germany in the P-51 43-6974 aircraft. After bailing out of the plane, Smith was captured by a policeman from the city of Seesen. He was taken to the crash site and killed by shots in the back by police M/Sergeant Eduard K. L. Curdts and his body was buried there later. CPT Smith was reinterred in the Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.
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