Edward Henry St Clair

Military
Second Lieutenant Edward St Clair of the 486th Bomb Group leans out of the window of his B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-37998) nicknamed "The Roanoke Magician". Image via Roland A Andrews. Handwritten on image: '23914 #7998. 486th BG, 835 Bs.' Handwritten caption on reverse: '2nd Lt Edward St Clair, 835th Sqd Pilot. 486 B Group Sudbury.' media-380824.jpg FRE 2020 Second Lieutenant Edward St Clair of the 486th Bomb Group leans out of the window of his B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-37998) nicknamed "The Roanoke Magician". Image via Roland A Andrews. Handwritten on image: '23914 #7998. 486th BG, 835 Bs.' Handwritten caption on reverse: '2nd Lt Edward St Clair, 835th Sqd Pilot. 486 B Group Sudbury.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 2020 - Second Lieutenant Edward St Clair of the 486th Bomb Group leans out of the window of his B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-37998) nicknamed "The...

Flew on plane named Roanoke Magician

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A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

24 June 1905

Buried

Roanoke, Virginia

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / friend

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Second Lieutenant Edward St Clair of the 486th Bomb Group leans out of the window of his B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 43-37998) nicknamed "The Roanoke Magician". Image via Roland A Andrews. Handwritten on image: '23914 #7998. 486th BG, 835 Bs.' Handwritten caption on reverse: '2nd Lt Edward St Clair, 835th Sqd Pilot. 486 B Group Sudbury.'

Object number: FRE 2020 - Second Lieutenant Edward St Clair of the 486th...