Capt. Richard Van Divort |
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(Dec. 21, 1945) -- Posthumous awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross and
the Air Medal with one silver cluster and one bronze oak leaf cluster, was
made yesterday to Capt. Richard Van Divort, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Van
Divort, of Oak Ridge Avenue, who was killed on a routine flight over Forestell, Mo., in October 1943.
The captain was a graduate of Nutley High school and Dartmouth college where he was president of his fraternity, Gamma Delta Phi.
A longer biography appears in
From The Nutley Sun American Legion Post 70 Memorial
World War II Honor List of
Dead and Missing, World War II National Memorial
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