Rank and Name, Ensign Emmett Russell Edwards Jr.
Unit/Placed in, Night Fighting Squadron Forty One, Carrier Air Group 22, United States Naval Reserve.
Emmet is born on 4 June 1921 in Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.
Father, Emmitt Russell Edwards.
Mother, Rosa May (Finley) Edwards.
Spouse, Margare (Eargle) Edward.
Emmett enlisted the service in South Carolina with service number # 0-321269.
Emmett was KIA/MIA in a aerial fights with Japanese Kamikaze Fighters, he got shot and crashed in the Philippine Sea on 6 January 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Emmett is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the missing.
Thanks to, http://www.ussindependencecvl22.com/index.htm
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/310183
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GQ4M-35B
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
WW2 Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Medals Forum, https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
WordPress en/of Wooncommerce oplossingen, https://www.siteklusjes.nl/
Military Recovery, https://www.dpaa.mil/
Luzon
On 6 January the Task Force had taken position off northeastern Luzon and launched strikes against southern Luzon airfields on that and the following day
Serial 0022, Operational Summaries of Carrier Strikes.
- F. Halsey [Robert B. Carney]. January 6,1945. 8pp.
Summary of air strikes on Luzon airfields by elements of TF 38
On 3 January 1945 Task Force 38 began a series of air strikes against targets on Formosa and Luzon that were designed to continue both the “softening up”
