[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 52 (Tuesday, April 1, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E480]
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                            RICHARD GOTTLIEB

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                          HON. SCOTT R. TIPTON

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, April 1, 2014

  Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Mr. Richard 
Gottlieb, a World War II Veteran, who served his county as a B-24 
gunner with the 15th Air Force, 55th Bomb Wing, of the 465th Bomb 
Group, 780th squadron stationed at Pantanella Air Base in Italy.
   The 465th Bomb Group served as a strategic bombardment group on two 
different missions, bombing strategic points near Vienna, Austria, on 
July 8, 1944, and two steel plants at Friedrichshafen, Germany, on 
August 3, 1944. His group was given a Distinguished Unit Citation for 
carrying out their missions despite enemy anti-aircraft and fighter 
pilot fire.
   Mr. Gottlieb was born in 1925, and spent most of his life in 
Brooklyn, New York. As a troop leader for the Boy Scouts of America, 
Mr. Gottlieb travelled by train through the State of Colorado to the 
Philmont Scout Ranch in Northern New Mexico, where he first saw and 
fell in love with the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, vowing to one day 
live there. In 1990, he moved to Ft. Garland, Colorado, and has been 
residing at the Colorado State Veterans Center at Homelake since 2006.
   Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to recognize Mr. Richard Gottlieb for 
his service to our country during WWII and for the contributions he 
made to preserve our freedom.

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