David Edmonds
Military ROLL OF HONOUR12 missions. Crashed in B-24H #42-7549 'The Shark' at Woodchurch airfield, Kent after losing one engine enroute and another on the return from a mission to Friedrichshafen, GR on 16 Mar 1944 and then running out of fuel over the English coast. Killed in Action (KIA). Replacement Bombardier Lt. R. C. Griffith's crew.
AM Oak Leaf Cluster, ETO ribbon
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Shark
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 2 April 1905 | |
Died |
16 March 1944 | ||
Buried |
Revisions
ABMC, personal, Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces;
href="http://www.8thairforce.com/44thbg/search/missions_flown_by.asp?perIdent…">http://www.8thairforce.com/44thbg/search/missions_flown_by.asp?perIdent…; / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia