Rank and Name, Ensign George Robert Edward.
Unit/Placed in, USS LCT 663 (Command post Flotilla 16), United States Naval Reserve.
Flottila
Navy organizational unit consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships.
George is born on 4 March 1922 in Monica, Preoria County, Illinois.
Father, Oliver Delwin Edwards.
Mother, Catherine Cecilia (Clark) Edwards.
Sister(s), Marietha and Catherine A. Edwards.
Brother(s), John Archibald, Delwin Clarck and Thomas Edwards.
George enlisted the service in Illinois with service number # O-330208.
George was KIA transporting men on the USS-663 to Omaha Beach when various shells from the German shore batteries hit them on 6 June 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
George is buried/mentioned at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England.
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Omaha beach was a “hell on earth” for the brave men landing there. The Germans were ready and waiting and most of the casualties were logged in this part of the assault. Many of the dead never made it past the front door of their landing craft, shot to death as they stepped into the water. Others, under heavy fire, were forced out of their landing crafts early only to find themselves drowning in waters too deep for them, their heavy packs and equipment quickly taking them down. Those lucky enough to make it to the beach were still in the fight of their lives and many would pay the final price in those sands. For others, wounds and death would come later. Days after they had survived this crushing assault they would fight on into the depths of France only to be killed by German fire. In many ways, they also died at Normandy with the others.
