Richard Paul Tustin (1921-2005), Maryland Registered Land Surveyor No. 3460, was graduated from Baltimore City College and, from 1936-1939, worked at the firm in a junior capacity. He also worked for some months in 1940 at J.E. Greiner Co.
He served in the Army Air Corps as a navigator during World War II, but his plane was shot down over Germany in 1944 killing 10 of the 13 men aboard. The survivors spent the rest of the war in a German prisoner of war camp: Stalag Luft I. He later was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and a Purple Heart.
After the war, Dick journeyed across the country visiting the families and spouses of the 10 killed over Germany—and married one of those spouses himself!
Afterward he returned to Martenet and was licensed in 1960.
He ran the business end of the firm from 1969, when Howard Sutton died, until 1988 when he and his brother Howard sold the firm to the present principals.
Dick served as a director of the Maryland Society of Surveyors.
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