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Personal info

Full name
MORRIS, Edgar Lyle
Date of birth
7 November 1910
Age
33
Place of birth
Stanton, Mercer County, North Dakota
Hometown
Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana

Military service

Service number
39609101
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Ball Turret Gunner
Unit
527th Bombardment Squadron,
379th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
26 November 1943
Place of death
Bremen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 34 48

Immediate family

Members
Edgar L. Morris (father)
Adella I. (Andre) Morris (mother)
Vernice Morris (sister)
Andre Morris (brother)
Leala E. (Mott) Morris (1st wife)
Keith D. Morris (son)
Gloria G. Morris (daughter)
Elizabeth W. (Sebastian) Morris (2nd wife)
Linda L. Morris (daughter)

Plane data

Serial number
42-29694
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Southern Belle
Destination: Bremen, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the port
MACR: 1577

More information

S/Sgt Edgar L. Morris was a miner.

He enlisted in Butte, Montana on 27 July 1942.

The airplane was shot down by flak. Four crew members were taken prisoner, six men were killed.

The crew members who bailed out and survived the crash heard a rumor that some allied air men had been killed by civilians in the area where they bailed out. On the other hand, a German officer told surviving crew members they found six bodies in the wreckage.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Morris Family Tree, www.fold3.com

Photo source: Peter Schouteten