Edwin E Wilcox

Military
media-17773.jpeg UPL 17773 Crew #453
Birto Brumby Crew
466th BG - 784th BS
458th BG - 755th BS
B-24J-1-FO 42-50555 "Baby Shoes" Code: J3-G 458th BG - 755th BS

Standing Left to Right: Donald Fraser (B), Edwin Wilcox (CP), Julius Sabo (RN), Birto Brumby (P), Harold Simeone (PN), Elmo Geppelt (N)

Kneeling Left to Right: Doyle Matz (FE), Robert Larimer (R/O), Wells Gardner (WG), Stanley Hammell (TG), George Strickland (TTG), Robert Voss (WG)

This crew flew 3 missions with 466th BG in the middle of their tour, while undergoing lead crew training. The balance of their 30 combat missions was flown with the 458th BG to which they were originally assigned

Object Number - UPL 17773 - Crew #453 Birto Brumby Crew 466th BG - 784th BS 458th BG - 755th BS B-24J-1-FO 42-50555 "Baby Shoes" Code: J3-G 458th BG - 755th BS Standing...

Assigned to B24 crew of Last Card Louie. Completed 25 missions. In England, flew F-9C, a modified B17 for photo mapping. Transferrred to Foggia, Italy after V-E day. . Flew photo mapping plane there with a recon group till September 1945,.



Air Medal w 4/Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 466th Bomb Group 755th Bomb Squadron 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Rochester, New York 8 August 1920

Died

17 November 2000

Buried

Bergen, NY 14416, USA 20 November 2000 Mount Rest Cemetery Bergen Genesee County New York, USA
Rochester, NY, USA 84 West Wood Drive

Revisions

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Sources

2nd Air Division; cousin & Page 442 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45) / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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