First Lieutenant Edmund William Poscavage
Service # O-555139
366th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group
Entered the Service from: Hartford, Connecticut
Enlisted September 4, 1941
Crashed/died: 11-Mar-1945
Flew a Thunderbolt. Shot down by SS -Division "Götz von Berlichingen
Crash site: Gersheim
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Buried at: Plot E Row 13 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold, France
Listed on Naugatuck Veterans Monument in Connecticut.
High School star athlete (baseball, football, basketball, swimming) Graduated from Ohio State. Played for the Royal Canadian Air Force Hurricanes who won the Grey Cup in 1942.
Son of William Anthony Poscavage and Anna Postus. Brother of Lillian Blondis.
Was best man at the wedding of future Canadian Football League Commissioner, Jacob Gaudaur, who mourned and remembered his best friend on Remembrance Day, November 11, each year until the end of his life.
Left a devasted young widow, Cynthia Claire Dawson.
Service # O-555139
366th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group
Entered the Service from: Hartford, Connecticut
Enlisted September 4, 1941
Crashed/died: 11-Mar-1945
Flew a Thunderbolt. Shot down by SS -Division "Götz von Berlichingen
Crash site: Gersheim
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Buried at: Plot E Row 13 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold, France
Listed on Naugatuck Veterans Monument in Connecticut.
High School star athlete (baseball, football, basketball, swimming) Graduated from Ohio State. Played for the Royal Canadian Air Force Hurricanes who won the Grey Cup in 1942.
Son of William Anthony Poscavage and Anna Postus. Brother of Lillian Blondis.
Was best man at the wedding of future Canadian Football League Commissioner, Jacob Gaudaur, who mourned and remembered his best friend on Remembrance Day, November 11, each year until the end of his life.
Left a devasted young widow, Cynthia Claire Dawson.
First Lieutenant Edmund William Poscavage
Service # O-555139
366th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group
Entered the Service from: Hartford, Connecticut
Enlisted September 4, 1941
Crashed/died: 11-Mar-1945
Flew a Thunderbolt. Shot down by SS -Division "Götz von Berlichingen
Crash site: Gersheim
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Buried at: Plot E Row 13 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold, France
Listed on Naugatuck Veterans Monument in Connecticut.
High School star athlete (baseball, football, basketball, swimming) Graduated from Ohio State. Played for the Royal Canadian Air Force Hurricanes who won the Grey Cup in 1942.
Son of William Anthony Poscavage and Anna Postus. Brother of Lillian Blondis.
Was best man at the wedding of future Canadian Football League Commissioner, Jacob Gaudaur, who mourned and remembered his best friend on Remembrance Day, November 11, each year until the end of his life.
Left a devasted young widow, Cynthia Claire Dawson.
Service # O-555139
366th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group
Entered the Service from: Hartford, Connecticut
Enlisted September 4, 1941
Crashed/died: 11-Mar-1945
Flew a Thunderbolt. Shot down by SS -Division "Götz von Berlichingen
Crash site: Gersheim
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Buried at: Plot E Row 13 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold, France
Listed on Naugatuck Veterans Monument in Connecticut.
High School star athlete (baseball, football, basketball, swimming) Graduated from Ohio State. Played for the Royal Canadian Air Force Hurricanes who won the Grey Cup in 1942.
Son of William Anthony Poscavage and Anna Postus. Brother of Lillian Blondis.
Was best man at the wedding of future Canadian Football League Commissioner, Jacob Gaudaur, who mourned and remembered his best friend on Remembrance Day, November 11, each year until the end of his life.
Left a devasted young widow, Cynthia Claire Dawson.
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from Connecticut.
