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S/Sgt Edsel Haney attended Ionia High School. He was associated with his father in mail hauling contracts and with the Frank's five and ten cent stores and assistant manager in the Ionia store.

On 15 June 1941, he was married to Miss Mildred Friend of Crystal and resided at Carson City while he was manager of the Frank store there.

He enlisted on 6 February 1943, and received training at Kearney, Nebraska. He was sent overseas in December 1943.

The pictures were taken in high school in 1939.

Waist gunners reported that when they abandoned ship, that the tail guns were badly mutilated and that there was a bundle on the tail gunners catwalk wich they took to be his kitbag. However later they remembered that S/Sgt Haney had not taken his kit bag with him on that mission and therefore it was assumed that it was himself. At the time of abondoning ship, gunners reported that they were under attack from the rear by about a dozen fighters. They therefore feel that S/Sgt Haney didn't have a chance. The writer was unable to reach the rear of the plane and therefore had to rely on this report from other men of the crew who were nearer to this position than he.

Nine of the crew bailed-out and were taken prisoner, only S/Sgt Haney was killed.