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"Major Blum of the 490th Bomb Group wears the Distinguished Flying Cross presented to him on 16-Feb-45 at an airbase in England."
Assigned to 490BG, 8AF USAAF. 30 x missions ETO. 700Hrs coastal anti-submarine patrols.
WIA.
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME (2 battle stars), American Campaign Medal.
Group
The 490th Bomb Group, like the 486th and 487th Bomb Groups transitioned from flying B-24 Liberators to B-17 Flying Fortresses, which were used in combat missions from late August 1944. Based at Eye, Suffolk, the Group were focused in the early months...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 20/6/44; Hunter 13/7/44; Dow Fd 23/7/44; Assigned 849BS/490BG Eye 26/7/44; during assembly for Frankfurt 5/1/45, with Harry Adelman, Co-pilot: Chas Elder, Navigator: Art Saye, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Virgil Walton, instr...
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the...
Cemetery
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Rochester, NY, USA | 16 September 1918 |
| Enlisted | Rochester, NY, USA | 25 April 1941 |
| Based | Eye | 1943 – 1945 |
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Assigned to 490BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | 4 June 2006 | |
| Buried | July 2006 | |
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Interred |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 18 March 2018 18:29:59 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events and place associations |
| Sources | ||
https://www.fold3.com/image/29429145?terms=Edward%20F%20Blum |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:08:19 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit History |
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