Edward Frewen Wilson III
Military
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 6873 - Captain Edward F Wilson, a pilot of the 491st Bomb Group in the cockpit of his B-24 Liberator. Image via Edward F Wilson Written on slide casing:...
Edward Wilson served as a pilot with the 491st Bomb Group flying B-24s on bombing missions out of North Pickenham, England. He took quite a few colour photographs of Liberators, both on base and in the air. He later shared slide copies with aviation historian Roger Freeman.
Edward Frewen Wilson III (1917-2006) enlisted in the US Army Air Forces in August 1940, he served as a pilot with the 853rd Bomb Squadron, 491st Bomb Group at North Pickenham, Flying B-24 Liberators. Wilson remained in the US Air Force following the Second World War, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel c.1968, he later worked in public health in Virginia.
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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
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: North Pick
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania | 11 February 1917 | |
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Died |
Henrico County, Virginia | 15 November 2006 | |
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Buried |
Revisions
Roger Freeman wrote 'Edward F Wilson' on the slide casing of each of the images now associated to this airman.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / WWW.491st.org roster
![8th Air Force veteran E.F. Wilson with a small gathering of friends at a servicemen's rest home in Devon, in April 1945. Handwritten on slide casing: 'Rest Home, Devon, 3[sic]/45. E.F. Wilson.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-458356.jpg.webp?itok=BEwKPjc5)
