- SURNAME
Pearce
- FORENAME
Edwin Jack
- UNIT
16 Special Operations Squadron (8 Tactical Fighter Wing)
- RANK
Staff Sergeant
- NUMBER
192387175
- DATE OF DEATH
29th March 1972
- AGE
24
- GRAVESITE
Milford Cemetery,Milford Pike,Pike County,Pennsylvania
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Milford,Pennsylvania
born 8.12.1947 Pike County,Pennsylvania
son of Edwin Albert and Rosemary B. Pearce,Milford,Pennsylvania
father (1922-2005) served WW2 as T/Sgt 390 Bombardment Group,USAAF (POW)
single
awards D.F.C.,Air Medal with 4 oak leaf clusters
aerial gunner (AC-130A Hercules Spectre gunship 55-0044)
KIA Savannakhet Province,Laos
remains not recovered
declared dead 24.7.1979
promoted Chief Master Sergeant posthumously
remains repatriated 1.3.1986
remains identified 26.6.1987
buried 20.9.2008
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 02W Line 122
Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia group burial of remains
DATE OF DEATH:
29-Mar-1972
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