Richard Klopfenstein | American Battle Monuments Commission

World War II

Service #	O-721119
Unit	701st Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group, Heavy
Rank	Second Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From	Indiana
Date of Death	December 11 1944
Status	Recovered
Memorialized	Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Madingley Road Coton CB23 7PH Cambridge United Kingdom

701st Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group, Heavy

Air Medal

Purple Heart

Air Medal, Purple Heart -

Notes

2LT Klopfenstein's remains have been recovered and identified in 2001. His name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial.

When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.