Tudor Richards was born in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1915. He graduated from Groton School, where his father was a teacher, in 1934. At Harvard College he was a member of the Class of 1938 and of the track team . He was a member of the Class of 1940 at the Yale School of Forestry, and was enrolled in a Masters program in forestry at the University of Michigan when the oncoming world war prompted a change of plans.
This website presents the letters TR wrote (mostly to his parents) during his World War II service, and the memoir he wrote shortly after the war. Each of the documents is presented in two forms:
TR’s postwar account of his wartime years, from enlistment and basic training through his combat missions, is here . This website’s title—“Dive Bombers and other Birds”—is actually the title TR chose for his memoir.