Edwin Frederick Bolgert
MilitaryAssigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Flew 69 missions in P-47's. Completed Tour Duty (ETD).
Awards: DFC, AM (5OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
Post war: Remained in the USAF rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Subsequently employed as a mechanical engineer in Kohler Company within the plumbing division until his retirement.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 56th Fighter Group 78th Fighter Group 63rd Fighter Squadron 82nd Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: "Duckpond"
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Sheboygan, WI, USA | 1 September 1921 | Son of Samuel and Amalia [Engel] Bolgert. |
Enlisted |
Milwaukee, WI, USA | 12 August 1942 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
Other Crashed |
Airfield Ln, Pearland, TX 77581, USA | 13 February 1944 | Belly Landing due to Engine Failure out of Fuel 16 Miles SW Galveston, TX Cat 4 damage 2Lt Edwin F Bolgert, 13-Feb-44. P-47D 42-23281 - 517FBS 407FBG 2AF |
Based |
Duxford | 27 June 1944 - 13 November 1944 | Assigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other Promotion |
Duxford, Cambridge CB22, UK | 15 September 1944 | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
Other End Tour Duty (ETD) |
13 November 1944 | Completed Tour Duty (ETD). | |
Died |
Sheboygan, WI, USA | 1 July 2010 | |
Buried |
Lutheran Cemetery Sheboygan Sheboygan County WI | 4 July 2010 | Lutheran Cemetery Sheboygan Sheboygan County Wisconsin, USA |
Revisions
Combined two entries for Edwin F Bolgert/Fred E Bolgert.
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list - had his name listed as Edwin F Bolgert.
This is confirmed by his obituary notice: http://www.memorialsolutions.com/sitemaker/sites/Balhor1/memsol.cgi?use…
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / EAGLES OF DUXFORD, The 78th Fighter Group in WW2 by Fry, p132