Name:
Edmund Lamont Decker
Rank:
Flight Officer
Serial Number:
T-223119
Unit:
361st Fighter Squadron, 356th Fighter Group
Date of Death:
1944-06-08
State:
Missouri
Cemetery:
Normandy American Cemetery, France
Plot:
D
Row:
16
Grave:
40
Decoration:
Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Medal
Comments:
Born 7 Jun 1920 in Jackson County, Missouri to Hazel A. Decker. Pilot of the P-47 Thunderbolt Type D-11-RE, serial number 42-75556QI*K that took off from station 369 Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, UK, on an armed reconnaissance of the area around Beauvais. Clipped a high tension wire while strafing trucks on a road at 8:50am, lost control and crashed. He is buried in Normandy American Cemetery, France and has a cenotaph located in Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.