Rank and Name, Private First Class Elden Claude Edwards.
Unit/Placed in, 63rd Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division.
Elden is born approx. on 21 February 1919 in Alexandria, Hanson County, South Dakota.
Father, Arthur Lee Edwards.
Mother, Elma Maybelle (Ormsbee) Edwards.
Brother(s), Orval Lee Edwards.
Elden enlisted the service on 23 September 1944 in Los Angeles, California with service number # 39728984.
Elden got KIA/MIA in the fights with the Japanese and drowned in the Marikina river a water gap in the Sierra Madre Mountains, east of Manila on 9 July 1945, he is honored with a Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Elde is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the missing.
Thanks to,
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GN9S-66Q
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/
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