Edmund Lamont Decker
Military ROLL OF HONOUROn the operational mission of 8 June 1944, F/O Decker, while strafing an enemy convoy, went into a vertical bank and a high speed stall, and crashed. His aeroplane (42-75556) exploded. Status: Killed in Action (KIA) 9 June 1944, and changed to Determined Dead, 6 August 1945.
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH.
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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
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 361st Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Kansas City, MO | 7 June 1920 | Son of Hazel A Decker. |
Enlisted |
Kansas City, MO | 17 August 1943 | |
Based |
Wormingford | 23 March 1944 - 8 June 1944 | Transferred to 361FS, 356FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Died |
Beauvais, France | 8 June 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) in P-47 42-75556; whilst strafing, stalled A/C and crashed in flames 8-Jun-44 Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 5589 |
Based Killed in Action (KIA) |
Atcham | 23 March 1944 | Assigned to 495FTG, 8AF USAAF. |
Buried |
Re-Interred Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial | ||
Buried |
Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, MO | Memorialised Mount Washington Cemetery Independence, Jackson County, MO |
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Additional information from duplicate record: Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
356 FG Assoc data, MACR 5589 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5589 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list