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Robert S. Edwards

NAME
Robert Stephen Edwards
NICKNAME
SERVICE NUMBER
413293
UNIT
VMD-154
Gunner
HOME OF RECORD
Gowrie, IA
NEXT OF KIN
Mother, Mrs. Viola Blanche Edwards
DATE OF BIRTH
April 14, 1922
ENTERED SERVICE
July 20, 1942
DATE OF LOSS
February 7, 1943
REGION
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
CAMPAIGN / AREA
Espiritu Santo
CASUALTY TYPE
Killed In Action
CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS
Private Robert S. Edwards was an aerial gunner assigned to VMD-154, a Marine reconnaissance squadron based in the New Hebrides Islands.

Just after 0400 hours on 7 February 1943, Edwards’ plane – PB4Y-1 BuNo 31958 – took off from Espiritu Santo for the first leg of a planned photographic mission to Truk. The aircraft barely cleared the coastline before it plunged into the sea 600 yards offshore of the airstrip, sinking into 94 fathoms of water.

The entire crew was killed in the incident. None of their remains could be recovered.

INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS
Purple Heart
LAST KNOWN RANK
Private
STATUS OF REMAINS
Not recovered
MEMORIALS
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

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