Timeline
Birth- 10 June 1923
Providence Rhode Island
1939 - 1945World War II- Age: 21 years
Service Number
2046433
Rank
Aviation Radioman, Second Class, U.S. Navy
Regiment
United States Naval Reserve
Awards
Purple Heart
Gold Star
Served For
United States of America
Conflict Period
World War II
Aircraft Assignment
TBF/TBM Avenger "radioman" - operated radios and manned 30 caliber gun
Stationed- 1943
Alameda, San Diego, Hilo & Kaneohe Hawaii
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Torpedo Squadron One (VT-1)
Casualty- 15 June 1944-Age: 21 years
Aircraft shot down by Japanese AA
Ditching just south of Chichi Jima
Death- 19 Jan 1946-Age: 23 years
Death
19-Jan-46
MIA near Chichi Jima 15 June 1944 (1946 not the actual date of death)
Burial
Honolulu, Hawaii
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial Honolulu, Hawaii
Memorial Location
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Other Facts
State Of Residence
Rhode Island
Full Name
Edward R Webster
Full Name
Edward Raymond Webster
Mother
Clara Louise Webster (Hunt)
Also Known As
"Bonzai"
Father
Eugene Howard Webster
Sibling
Howard, Russell, Francis, Earl, Clair
