Raymond R. Rhodes was born in 1927.  He was the son of Chester and Myrtle Rhodes, and he had two sisters, Doris and Para Mea.  He attended college for two years and worked as a welding instructor before the war. He married Mary Ann Rufino and they lived in Sebastian County, Arkansas.  He joined the US Army Air Forces on 6 November 1942. Raymond served as the flight engineer/top turret gunner on the crew of Lt. Dan W. Means.  On 2 October 1944, German fighters attacked the bomber near Hamm Germany.  Two engines were set on fire. Three members of the crew were able to bail out, but the others, including Raymond, perished.  Dan W Means, the pilot, Britt Maxwell, the tail gunner, and Lincoln Ricker, who was serving as the bombardier, are also buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery.

Information from the Imperial War Museum and from http://www.theyfoughtforfreedom.nl/raymond_r_rhodes.htm