Clarence Edward Edwards
Military
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Bradley Edgar Squires collection
PHIL SQUIRES
Assigned to 401BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wilhelmshafen in B-17 42-30805 3-Nov-43; shot down crashed Gesellschaftshaus. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 1155
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2044671
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Bomb Boogie's Revenge
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
19 April 1915 | Son of Henry Bartholomew and Ida Mathilda [King] Edwards. | |
Enlisted |
21 February 1942 | New Cumberland, Pennsylvania | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
3 November 1943 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. | |
Other Baled out POW |
3 November 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Wilhelmshafen in B-17 42-30805 3-Nov-43; shot down crashed Gesellschaftshaus. POW. MACR 1155 | |
Died |
3 July 1968 | ||
Buried |
6 July 1968 | Evergreen Cemetery Union City, Erie County, Pennsylvania | |
Based |
3 November 1943 | Assigned to 401BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
Contributorjmoore43
Changes
Sources
Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Added a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1155 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database