Herbert J Edwards

Military

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Units served with

Aircraft

44-21109

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Sue
  • Unit: 56th Fighter Group 61st Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

End of War

Austin, TX, USA 2 November 1923

Other

Assigned to 62nd Fighter Squadron

Boxted, Colchester, UK 19 September 1944 Assigned as uncommissioned flight Officer - Service Number T-2679

Other

Transferred

Boxted, Colchester, UK 6 October 1944 Transferred from 62nd to 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group

Other

Commissioned

Boxted, Colchester, UK 25 January 1945 Promoted to 2Lt on being commissioned.

Other

Promoted

Boxted, Colchester, UK 18 April 1945 Promoted from 2Lt to 1Lt.

Died

Windsor, MO 65360, USA 17 November 1959 A B-47 bomber from McConnell Air Force Base at Wichita crashed in flames, narrowly missing a school and an automobile on a county road. A spokesman at McConnell said the four men aboard the plane were: Capt. Herbert J. Edwards, 36, instructor pilot from Austin, Tex. Maj. Edgar Jodoin, 35, student pilot from Oxford, Mass. 1st Lt. Robert L. Westrup, 24 student co-pilot from Albany, Ore A.1.C. James H. Redmond, 21, the flight engineer, from Bay Shore, N. Y.

Buried

Austin, TX, USA

Revisions

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ContributorPyker
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Added biography using Ted Damick pilot listing and data at: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Edwards&GSfn=Herb…;

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list / www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/personnel.htm