Photo Gallery

Snort Stuff being repaired in Sweden after the War

Mission list of Lt Downing

Part 2 Mission List

Wolff Pack artwork never put on 061

David Solomon and Red Cross Girl. Courtesy of Virginia Solomom

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.

Lt william E. Green KIA on Feb 4, 1944

BTG on Lt John Flanigan Royal Flush Crew.