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CPL Melvin D Edwards

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CPL Melvin D Edwards Veteran

Birth
Death
6 Jun 1944 (aged 22)
Picauville, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France
Burial
Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
6, 0, 758
Memorial ID
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CPL Melvin Edwards was a member of G Company, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. CPL Edwards, along with members of his company and the flight crew of C-47 "IB-J", 42-24077, 77th Troop Carrier Squadren, 435th Troop Carrier Group were killed when their plane was shot down and crashed at 0120, June 6, 1944 near Picauville, France.

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Sedgwick County, Kansas...Killed In Action...Re-interred on 05/10/1948.

Military Information: CPL, Parachute Infantry
CPL Melvin Edwards was a member of G Company, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. CPL Edwards, along with members of his company and the flight crew of C-47 "IB-J", 42-24077, 77th Troop Carrier Squadren, 435th Troop Carrier Group were killed when their plane was shot down and crashed at 0120, June 6, 1944 near Picauville, France.

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Sedgwick County, Kansas...Killed In Action...Re-interred on 05/10/1948.

Military Information: CPL, Parachute Infantry


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