Harlan R Edson
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 64715 - Crash site of 42-50457
Harlan Edson served as a navigator with the 448th Bomb Group. He arrived as part of a replacement crew on 17 November 1944. He was killed in an aircraft crash in England less than a month later, on 7 December 1944.
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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
- Unit: 448th Bomb Group 715th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
19 March 1922 | ||
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Based |
Seething | 17 November 1944 - 7 December 1944 | |
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Died |
Seething, Norwich, Norfolk NR15, UK | 7 December 1944 | |
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Other Entered service from |
South Dakota, USA | Exact date not yet known | |
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Buried |
Fort Snelling National Cemetery, 7601 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55450, USA |
Revisions
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources
'A Replacement Crew in the ETO' pdf available here: http://willisrowe.com/DownloadableFiles/ROWE%20CREW.pdf
Findagrave record: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=edson&GSbyrel=all…;
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Supplement