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Casualty Info
Home Town Rosemead, CA
Last Address Rosemead, CA
Casualty Date Jun 08, 1952
Cause Non Hostile- Body Not Recovered
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Korea
Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Hampton National Cemetery (VA) - Hampton, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates (memorial)
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Lieutenant Garver was the pilot of a AD-4NL Skyraider night fighter with Composite Squadron 35 aboard the aircraft carrier USS PRINCETON (CVA-37). On June 8, 1952, while returning from combat reconnaissance, the aircraft crashed into the sea, killing him and his radarman. His remains were not recovered.
Comments/Citation:
Service number: 471255
Distinguished Flying Cross
(Citation Needed) - SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Richard Eugene Garver (NSN: 0-471255), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while serving in Composite Squadron THIRTY-FIVE (VC-35), attached to U.S.S. PRINCETON (CV-37), in Korea on 8 June 1950. General Orders: All Hands (March 1953) Action Date: June 8, 1950 Service: Navy Rank: Lieutenant Company: Composite Squadron 35 (VC-35) Division: U.S.S. Princeton (CV-37)
RenamedPrinceton, 21 November 1944, to honor CVL-23, lost in action the previous month. (The name Valley Forge was subsequently assigned to CV-45.)
Sponsored by Mrs. Harold W. Dodds (née Margaret Murray), President of Princeton University.
Reclassified as an "Attack Aircraft Carrier" and redesignated CVA-37, 1 October 1952.
Reclassified as an "Antisubmarine Warfare Support Aircraft Carrier" and redesignated CVS-37, 1 January 1954.
Reclassified as an "Amphibious Assault Ship (Helicopter)" and redesignated LPH-5, 2 March 1959. Converted at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, Calif.
Fate: Sold for scrapping to Zidell Explorations Inc., Portland, Oreg., in September 1972, by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), for $336,697.99. About 600 tons of her armor plate have been put to use at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
