Edwin Issac Morgan
Military
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UPL 56156
S/Sgt Edwin I. Morgan (Standing, fourth from the Left)
Alvin L. Barker Crew (left to right)
Standing: Alvin Barker (P), S. Hayne (CP), John Neal (TG), Edwin Morgan (WG), John K Williams (WG)
Kneeling: Robyn Fulton (BTG), Theodore Price (ROG), Frank Coon (BOM), Willis Stroud (TTE)
Picture taken at Walla Walla, WA about February, 1943
(Courtesy of Thorpe Abbotts Tower Museum Archives - January, 2006)
Alvin L. Barker Crew (left to right)
Standing: Alvin Barker (P), S. Hayne (CP), John Neal (TG), Edwin Morgan (WG), John K Williams (WG)
Kneeling: Robyn Fulton (BTG), Theodore Price (ROG), Frank Coon (BOM), Willis Stroud (TTE)
Picture taken at Walla Walla, WA about February, 1943
(Courtesy of Thorpe Abbotts Tower Museum Archives - January, 2006)
Assigned to 351BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin 24-May-44 in in B-17 42-31306 'Nelson King'; shot down by fighters, crashed Ostprignitz. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5165
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-813794
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Nelson King
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Lawrenceburg, TN | 6 May 1921 | Son of I A Morgan. |
Enlisted |
Sacramento, CA | 23 July 1942 | Sacramento, California |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 24 May 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
Other Baled out POW |
Ostprignitz, Germany | 24 May 1944 | Shot down by fighters, crashed Ostprignitz. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5165 |
Other Discharged USAAF |
8 September 1945 | Honourable discharge. | |
Died |
Modesto, CA | 3 February 2000 | |
Based |
24 May 1944 | Assigned to 351BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. | |
Madera, CA |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5165 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database