2Lt Edwin Alan Yelton (1919-1943) - Find a Grave Memorial

2Lt Edwin Alan Yelton Veteran

Birth

26 Oct 1919

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA

Death

18 Aug 1943 (aged 23)

Monument

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map

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Edwin entered the service from Kentucky

Highlands High School

Attended Eastern Kentucky University

Enlisted on 13 August 1941 in Fort Thomas, Newport, Kentucky

2nd Lt 15067484 U. S. Army Air Force - Navigator

19th Anti-Submarine Squadron, 479th Anti-Submarine Group - B-24 Liberator

MACR 363 - Aircraft serial number is listed as 42-63791

This operation was an anti-submarine patrol over the North Sea off the Holland/Belgium coast by a B-24 dispatched by 479th Anti-Submarine Group/19th Anti-Submarine Squadron. The aircraft was shot down by enemy aircraft and ditched into the North Sea. 4 KIA - 6 RTD (rescued by ASR). Those rescued spent 5 days adrift in a raft.

Missing in Action

Edwin entered the service from Kentucky

Highlands High School

Attended Eastern Kentucky University

Enlisted on 13 August 1941 in Fort Thomas, Newport, Kentucky

2nd Lt 15067484 U. S. Army Air Force - Navigator

19th Anti-Submarine Squadron, 479th Anti-Submarine Group - B-24 Liberator

MACR 363 - Aircraft serial number is listed as 42-63791

Missing in Action

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Edwin Forrest Yelton

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