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Contact Info
Home Town Portland, Oregon
Last Address Andrews Field, Maryland
Date of Passing Mar 28, 1947
Location of Interment River View Cemetery - Portland, Oregon
Wall/Plot Coordinates Section 122, Lot 253, Grave 3
He downed 7 enemy aircraft in aerial combat in WWII. He also destroyed 3 flying bombs, 25 enemy vehicles, and 5 locomotives.
He was killed in a flying accident in an AT-6F Texan near Norristown, PA, Mar 28, 1947, while serving with the 64th Army Air Force Base Unit at Andrews Field, MD.
Due to a glitch in the system his Air Medals shown are incorrect. His actual total was 18.
(Citation Needed) - SYNOPSIS: Captain (Air Corps) Edwin O. Fisher, United States Army Air Forces, was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action against the enemy while serving with the NINTH Air Force in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
General Orders: Headquarters, 9th Air Force, General Orders No. 267 (1944)
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Northern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
July / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Northern France Campaign 25 July to 14 September 1944) Bombardment along a five-mile stretch of the German line enabled the Allies to break through on 25 July. While some armored forces drove southward into Brittany, others fanned out to the east and, overcoming a desperate counterattack, executed a pincers movement that trapped many Germans in a pocket at Falaise. The enemy fell back on the Siegfried Line, and by mid-September 1944 nearly all of France had been liberated. During these operations in France, while light and medium bombers and fighter-bomber aircraft of Ninth Air Force had been engaged in close support and interdictory operations, Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had continued their strategic bombing.
