Robert H Edwards

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

On his second mission when bomber shot down over Boulogne, France. Given FOD after year and a day.

Killed in Action (KIA) in B-26B 41-18058 [ER:S] 322BG/450BS while serving as a Photographer. The aircraft was hit by flak on mission to Boulogne, France. Engine damaged by hit, aircraft flipped over and crashed into the English Channel.



The 322nd was moved to the 9th AF Oct. 1943.



Purple Heart.

Connections

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

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Killed in action

Strait of Dover 9 September 1943 Killed when aircraft was struck by flak and crashed into the English Channel near the target of Boulogne, France. His remains have never been recovered.

Born

Baltimore, Maryland

Buried

Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Ardennes American Cemetery.

Revisions

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Changes
Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia;
- Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 279;
- Lee Cunningham 4-Jun-2015. (Added decorations and Commemorated event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) records; Added SN and KIA event per MACR 15064; Made connections to Place, AIrcraft and Mission within existing website data; Edited Summary biograpy adding call sign, unit association and crew position).

Further details from http://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/american-war-cemetery-a…

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The 25th BG (Rcn) by Notmsn Malaney