Cambridge – ww2 Europe

Rank and Name, Lieutenant Commanders Heywood Lane Edwards.

Unit/Placed in, USS Reuben James (DD-245) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Heywood is born on 9 November 1905 in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas.

Father, Winston Chapman Edwards.

Mother, Louise (Smith) Edwards.

Brother(s), Winston Chapman Edwards.

Spouse, Almeda (Stewart) Edwards.

Heywood enlisted the service in Texas with service number # O-060361.

Heywood was KIA/MIA, the destroyer was sunk by a torpedo attack from German submarine U-552 near Iceland on 31 October 1941, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.

Heywood is buried/mentioned at Cambridge American Cemetery

Walls of the missing.

Heywood also has a Memorial Grave at San Saba City Cemetery,

San Saba, San Saba County, Texas, USA.

Thanks to, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/96XW-168

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/

Name and Rank, First Officer Elmer E. Ulich.

Unit/Placed in, Royal Air Force Ferry Command, United States Army Air Forces.

Elmer E. Uhlich was in the RAF transport command and the crash occurred before the US entered WWII. The plane was a Liberator (AL562) and it crashed in Wigtown Bay, Scotland.

Elmer was born approx. in 1915 in Michigan.

Father, Gustave Uhlich.

Father was born in Germany.

Mother, Fannie Uhlich.

Sisters, Vera and Bernice Uhlich.

Brothers, Walter, Alfred, Gus, Clarence, Lawrence, Lester, Wilbert, Allen, Robert and Leroy Uhlrich.

Elmer entered the service from Michigan with service number # no record.

Elmer E. Ulich was a First Officer in the Royal Air Force.

Elmer died when the engine of his plane caught fire and crashed in Scotland, on Nov 23, 1941.

Elmer is buried at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton,

South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England.

Thanks to http://www.raf-lichfield.co.uk/ATA%20Casualties.htm