Bacon III, Edward Richardson

Rank and Name, Second Lieutenant Edward Richardson Bacon III.

Unit/Placed in, 21st Bomber Squadron, 28th Bomber Group, Heavy.

Edward is born approx. on5 March 1920 in Chicago.

Father, Edward R. Bacon.

Mother, Katherine (Harrell) Bacon.

Spouse, Blair (Holloway) Bacon.

Edward enlisted the service in Illinois with service number # 0-734635.

Edward‘s Crew-members and their position on-board the plane a B-24 were,

Captain Harrell R. Hoffman Pilot

2^nd Lt. Robert J. Riddle Co Pilot

2^nd Lt. Carroll W. Cramer Navigator

2^nd Lt. Edward R. Bacon III Bombardier

TSgt. Myron M. Brown Engineer/Gunner

TSgt. John J. Antonio Radio Operator/Gunner

SSgt. Sammy C. Benton Radar Observer

SSgt. Raymond G. Brown Asst. Engineer/Gunner

SSgt. Richard H. Quackenbush Top Turret Gunner

Sgt. Nick J. Mesa Photographer

Edward was KIA on the Bombing Mission to Paramushir island, Russia when they was last seen followed by enemy planes on 8 Nov. 1943, he is honored with an Air Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Edward is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

Thanks to,

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and 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

National Historian