World War II sub chaser goes west
By Dave Hirschman
Col. Edmond I. “Eddie” Edwards, a Civil Air Patrol sub chaser and the first to spot and report the position of a Nazi U-boat off the U.S. East Coast in 1942, died Dec. 5 at age 96.
Edwards also won an Air Medal for heroism for helping rescue a downed aviator off the Maryland coast and received the award from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House. Read more by Dave Hirschman, AOPA Online
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