MERRILL'S MARAUDERS Wade, Edward Allen

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Wade

  • FORENAME
Edward Allen

  • UNIT
3 Bn (Orange Combat Team)

  • RANK
Private First Class

  • NUMBER
20927796

  • AWARD
Bronze Star

  • PLACE
Burma 1944

  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Claytonia,Owyhee County,Idaho
born 10.2.1922 Newberg,Missouri
son of Charles Russell Benjamin Harrison and Ora Ethel (nee McBride) Wade
graduated Marsing High School 1939
farm hand and operator of general stores in Marsing and Wilder,Idaho
actor in civilian life (enlistment)
enlisted 1.4.1941 Caldwell,Idaho (Field Artillery)
98 Field Artillery Bn (Pack) 1943 (Private)
Marauders 1.10.1943
re-enlisted 1947 USAF (aircraft loadmaster)
served Korea and Vietnam
retired March 1965
moved to Oregon 1973
employed by Ore-Ida Foods (Nyssa),Nissa School District,NACA Trucking and American Fine Foods
married Della Lorene Wiley 3.11.1947 (1926-2010) (2 sons Charles and Douglas)
last residence Nyssa,Oregon
died 14.8.2010 Nyssa,Oregon
Hilltop Memorial Cemetery,Nyssa,Malheur County,Oregon

 
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