WWII · Battle Death Record
Levitt Beck
1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces · California
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Levitt Beck
- Entered the Service From
- California
- Rank
- 1st Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army Air Forces
- Unit / Regiment
- 514th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group
- War
- WWII
- Date of Death
- November 29, 1944
- Awards
- Air Medal with Three Oak Leaf Clusters, Prisoner of War Medal, Purple Heart
- Burial / Memorial
- Commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing, Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial
- Grave
- Tablets of the Missing
Their story
1st Lt. Levitt C. Beck Jr., a P-47 fighter pilot with the 514th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group, was shot down southwest of Paris on June 29, 1944, and sheltered by the French Resistance before being betrayed and captured. He was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp, where he died of illness (pneumonia/pulmonary consumption) on November 29, 1944. His remains were never recovered, and the manuscript he wrote while in hiding was later published as the book 'Fighter Pilot.'
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