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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)
Description On 23 June 1951 Jacob Malik, Deputy Foreign Minister of the U.S.S.R., made a statement in a recorded broadcast in New York implying Chinese and North Korean willingness to discuss armistice terms to end the Korean War. When Communist China indicated that it also desired peace, President Truman authorized General Ridgway to arrange for an armistice conference with the North Korean commander. Both aides agreed to begin negotiations at Kaesong on 10 July 1951. The chief delegate for the U.N. at the conference was Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy. The enemy delegation was led by Lt. Gen. Nam Il.
It was agreed at the first meeting that military operations would continue until an armistice agreement was signed. However, neither aide was willing to start any large-scale offensive while peace talks were in progress. U.N. military action in this period was limited to combat patrolling, artillery and air bombardment, and the repulsing of enemy attacks.
In August of 1951 the strength of all U.N. ground forces under Eighth Army command totaled 549,224. This included 248,320 U.S. ground troops, Army and Marines, 268,320 in the ROK Army, and 32,874 in the ground units of the seventeen other United Nations.
Truce negotiations were broken off by the Communists on 22 August. Van Fleet then launched a series of limited-objective attacks to improve the Eighth Army's defensive positions. The U.S. X and ROK I Corps in east-central Korea fought for terrain objectives five to seven miles above Line KANSAS, among them Bloody and Heartbreak Ridges, to drive enemy forces from positions that favored an attack on Line KANSAS. By the last week in October these objectives had been secured.
Along the western portion of the front, action in September was characterized by local attacks, counterattacks, and combat patrols. By 12 October five divisions of the I Corps had advanced the front three to four miles to a new Line JAMESTOWN to protect the Ch'orwon-Seoul railroad. The IX Corps followed with aggressive patrolling toward Kumsong. On 21 October it seized the commanding heights just south of the city.
On 25 October armistice negotiations were resumed at the new site of Panmunjom.
