Edwin T. Bauman

Edwin T. Bauman

Army Air Corps

EDWIN
T.
BAUMAN

Jun 14, 1921 - Feb 10, 2004
BIRTHPLACE: Pickrell, NE

SOLDIER DETAILS

DIVISION:
Army Air Corps
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529 Sqd, 311th Grp, 14th Air Force
THEATER OF OPERATION:
China Burma India
SERVED: Jan 1, 1942 -
Jan 1, 1946
HONORED BY: Daughter, Marcia Emal

BIOGRAPHY

Towards the end of the war, Edwin flew with a less experienced ambulance airplane pilot on a mission to retrieve bodies in China. They made a forced landing in a rocky riverbed. Chinese nationals surrounded them: only one - a lady whose husband was a professor - spoke English. Edwin spent two long days walking and one day hiding under bamboo in a sampan to reach his base. Edwin said, 'Everyone has an angel and the English-speaking lady was mine.'