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Col. EDGAR FREEMAN WOODWARD, Jr., USAF (ret.) We are saddened to announce the death of our dear father on October 13, 2011, of pneumonia, in Alexandria, VA. Col. Woodward was born in Philadelphia, PA, May 11, 1919, and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. In 1927 at age eight, he watched in amazement with his father as Charles Lindbergh lifted off Long Island’s Roosevelt Field in the “Spirit of St. Louis” en route to Paris, the first-ever non-stop transatlantic flight. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and Wesleyan University in Connecticut before joining the U.S. Army Air Corps. in 1940. His 31-year military career included serving with the 418th Squadron of the 100th Bomb Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, where he flew B17 bombers in Europe during World War II. Col. Woodward’s plane was shot down over the French border on his 13th mission. With typical “dumb luck,” as he called it, he parachuted into Switzerland, where he served as Acting Commanding Officer in a Swiss Internment Camp for a year and a half. His entire crew survived as well. Following a prisoner exchange arranged by the Swiss with the United States, Col. Woodward returned to Britain. He also served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He was a U.S. Air Force special envoy with the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization when he was stationed in Hawaii. Col. Woodward and his family moved to Alexandria, VA in 1962, where he held various posts at the Pentagon. After retiring from the Air Force in 1971, he worked for Marriott and Honeywell Security Systems in the Washington, D.C. area. Among awards: the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Col. Woodward was preceded in death by his wife of 68 years Dorothy Cisin Woodward, who died January 26, 2010. He will be greatly missed by his four children, Edgar III, Douglas, Patricia, and Tracy, and 12 grandchildren. Services will be held on Monday, February 6, 2012 at 11:00am at the Old Post Chapel, Ft. Myer. Burial with Full Military Honors will follow at Arlington National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be given to the American Cancer Society.

Jack Coop speaking at the 100th Bomb Group reunion in 2015 in New Orleans.

Sgt. William "Bill" DeBlasio (100th Bomb Group Archives)

418th BS / Group Communications

BTG on Lt Raymond Lischer Crew

Thanks to Jurgen Neuberger for donating and Sibylle Hernandez for delivering this silk escape map from Curtis Biddick Crew on August 17, 1943 Regensburg Mission. The map is stained with blood and was confiscated by a German police officer. Years later, he gave it to Jurgen. Now it is in the hands of the 100th Bomb Group Foundation The Bloody Hundredth" We thank Jurgen and Sibylle for getting us this piece of History.

100 BG / 418 BS 1LT GREEN, WILLIAM E. From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. MIA 4-2-1944 as pilot of B-17G / #42-37975 / LD-'U' / MACR 2343. Target: Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Left formation with engines smoking at the western tip of Schouwen Island, the Netherlands, and headed into the undercast. According to further research by the Dutch Study Group Air War 1939-1945 the aircraft seems to have made a right hand turn and eventually crashed in the North Sea, west of Grevelingen (Island of Goeree). 6 MIA / 4 KIA. 1Lt Green is commemorated on the Margraten Cemetery Walls of the Missing. Also see https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-g/46927-green-william-e Source of the portrait photograph: Pilot Class Book 43-D, Coleman Flying School, Texas. This class book was kindly provided by Mr. Ralph Terry and was indexed by Arie-Jan (#617).

Article on Stanley Morrison (courtesy of Laura Shivers)

Article on Stanley Morrison (courtesy of Laura Shivers)

Article on Stanley Morrison (courtesy of Laura Shivers)