Name:
Marvin Elmer Edgar
Rank:
Sergeant
Serial Number:
Unit:
Date of Death:
1944-05-08
State:
Missouri
Cemetery:
Jefferson Barracks National Cem., Missouri
Plot:
Section 82
Row:
Grave:
73-73A
Decoration:
Comments:
Marvin Elmer Edgar was born on September 12, 1922 in Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. He served in the US Air Corps as a Sergeant. He died on May 8, 1944 at the age of 21 and is now buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA in a common grave with others. He was a passenger of an aircraft at the time of his death.
Marvin was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China but hid middle name's initial is inscribed as B.