Elizabeth_Ann_Richardson

Liz Richardson

Liz Richardson

Red Cross Clubmobiler

Elizabeth Ann Richardson (1918–1945) was a volunteer for the American Red Cross who served in a Clubmobile serving coffee and doughnuts to US troops during the invasion of France in the Second World War. She was killed in a Piper Cub plane crash near Rouen[4] when flying to Paris in 1945 and is now one of the four women to be buried in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.[5][1][3][2] The other three women honored with burials there are African Americans who had served in the Army's unique 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, and been killed in a Jeep accident.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Elizabeth Ann Richardson", Mémoire & Database
  2. [2]
    James H. Madison (2007), "Wearing Lipstick to War", Prologue Magazine, 39 (3)
  3. [3]
    James H. Madison (2007), Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys : An American Woman in World War II, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253350473
  4. [4]
    Gritz, Jennie Rothenberg. "Message Received". Smithsonian (March 2023): 47.
  5. [5]
    Julia Stringfellow (October 1, 2008), Elizabeth Richardson Exhibit, Lawrence University


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