Richard M. Horwitz

World War II
Service #O2064188
Unit716th Bomber Squadron, 449th Bomber Group, Heavy
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Massachusetts
Date of DeathFebruary 28 1945
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Notes

2nd Lt. Horwitz’s remains were identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in 2017. His name is permanently engraved on the "Walls of the Missing" at Florence American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
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.