Elizabeth Ann Richardson was a volunteer for the American Red Cross during World War II known for being one of the four women buried at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.
Citizenship
United States
Born
1918, June 8, 1918
Died
1945, July 25, 1945
Overview
Elizabeth Ann Richardson (1918–1945) was a volunteer for the American Red Cross who served in a Clubmobile serving coffee and doughnuts to US troops during the invasion of France in the Second World War. She was killed in a Piper Cub plane crash near Rouen when flying to Paris in 1945 and is now one of the four women to be buried in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. The other three women honored with burials there are African Americans who had served in the Army's unique 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, and been killed in a Jeep accident.
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1918 births
1945 deaths
American Red Cross personnel
American women civilians in World War II
Milwaukee-Downer College alumni
People from Akron, Ohio
People from Mishawaka, Indiana
American civilians killed in World War II
