Edwin Bauman

Personal Information

Birthplace: Pickrell, NE

Service Information

Branch of Service: Army Air Corps

Unit: 529 Sqd, 311th Grp, 14th Air Force

Theater of Operation: China / Burma / India

Enlisted / Commissioned: Jan 1, 1942

Discharged: 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.’