Edwin Bailey Anderson
MilitaryAssigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Hannover. On run in to strafe ground targets, hit by flak. Abandoned P-51D 44-63177 24-Feb-45. 2nd Lt Anderson Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12613.
Awards: AM (OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: "Duckpond"
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Hardin County, KY, USA | 23 June 1923 | |
Enlisted |
Louisville, KY, USA | 13 November 1942 | Louisville, Kentucky |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 24 February 1945 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III. |
Other Baled Out |
Hanover, Germany | 24 February 1945 | Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Hannover. On run in to strafe ground targets, hit by flak. Abandoned P-51D 44-63177 24-Feb-45. 2nd Lt Anderson Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12613. |
Died |
Kentucky, USA | 18 November 1981 | |
Madisonville, KY 42431, USA | |||
Buried |
Odd Fellows Cemetery Madisonville Hopkins County KY | Odd Fellows Cemetery Madisonville Hopkins County Kentucky, USA |
Revisions
Added POW Camp info to the POW event from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added an association to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12613 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list