World War II Honoree

Edward Shelby Reed

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Mobile, Alabama

Honored By

Melissa Parker

Relationship

Niece

SERVED IN THE ARMY AIR FORCE (8TH AIR FORCE, 94TH BOMB GROUP, 410TH SQUADRON) IN THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS, STATIONED AT ROUGHAM, BURY ST. EDMUNDDS. WAS CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS DURING THE 2ND SCHWEINFURT RAID ON OCTOBER 14, 1943 'BLACK THURSDAY' AND BECAME A PRISONER OF WAR AT STALAG 7A AT MOOSBURG. SURVIVED AND WAS LIBERATED IN 1945. SERVED IN THE KOREAN WAR AND RETIRED FROM THE AIR FORCE AS A LIEUTENANT COLONEL.