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Capt Edward E. Hunt was a post office clerk.

He enlisted in San Francisco, California, on 27 March 1941.

2nd Lt Frederick I. Couch:
"We had left the target area and went below the overcast down to between 5,000 and 6,000 feet and had taken up a course home. As we were passing the lines, we caught flak, which I believe missed both of us, and Lt Hunt and I immediately broke to the left. The second element apparently held its course as I passed exceedingly close to the No. 3 man. I immediately took my eyes off Lt Hunt to watch for the No. 4 man. At this instant, Lt Hunt went into the overcast, and I lost him. I proceeded to climb, and about 5 minutes later, I heard him call Ripsaw, and I took up the same heading as they gave him. He did not use the R/T after that. I was unable to get over the overcast, so I proceeded to get my own homing from Ripsaw, which I was unable to do. Finally, I let down to about 200 feet and found an opening in the overcast. I came down to about 100 feet, where I was in a valley at the town of Mericourt. I circled the town for about half hour trying to determine my position and hoping for a break in the weather. In the meantime, my pitot tube apparently froze as my air speed indicator was out. As it began to get dark, I bellied in about 2 miles from the town. The MP detachment at Mericourt sent a detail out to look for me, but instead of finding me, they found two Frenchmen who told them that a Mustang had crashed into a hill about 15 miles from the town. They didn’t see the plane, so they were not sure whether it was a Mustang or not. But the Frenchmen told them that the pilot had been killed and the body had been removed by an ambulance. That was all the information I could find out about the plane."


He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Capt Hunt's combat record was impressive. He shot down six enemy planes, making him an ace. Also he assisted in shooting down another one, claimed damaging three and probably was responsable for two other kills.