EDEL, 2nd Lt. Clair B.

EDEL, FERRIER, GRANGE, HUHN, MCCLELLAN, NOZICKA

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/18/2013 at 10:05:46

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Friday, June 04, 1943, Page 5

37 Students of J. C. Now in Service

According to Dean S. Rugland, 37 junior college students of the 153 enrolled last September have enrolled in some phase of the war service during the school year. [Among] the 25 serving in the army are . . . and Clair Edel.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Tuesday, August 17, 1943, Page 10

Your Neighbors in the
KAHKI AND BLUE
What They Are Doing

WHEREABOUTS

Clair Edel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Edel, Route 3, Mason City, has been transferred from Garner Field, Tex., to Goodfellow Field, Tex., for basic training in the army air corps.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, December 08, 1943, Page 12

COMMISSIONED LIEUTENANTS AT TEXAS PILOT SCHOOLS

Among a large number of Iowa aviation cadets graduated from Texas flying fields Dec. 5 [was] Clair B. Edel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Edel, route 3 as a fighter pilot.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, May 26, 1944, Page 6

Praised by Under Secretary of War

Praised by Under Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson as “a fine body of men,” another large class of potential combat pilots has departed from the San Antonio aviation cadet center to take advanced training at primary flying fields. Members of the class included 227 from Iowa, six of whom are from Mason City. They are Donald Leroy Ferrier, son of A. C. Ferrier, Route 4; Clair B. Edel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edel, Route 3; Dorance S. Grange, 216 Vermont avenue southeast; Donald K. Kuhn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kuhn, 544 Tenth street northeast; William O. McClellan, 4 Hazel Court, and Bennie J. Nozicka, 830 Fifteenth street southeast.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, December 08, 1943, Page 12

COMMISSIONED LIEUTENANTS AT TEXAS PILOT SCHOOLS

Among a large number of Iowa aviation cadets graduated from Texas flying fields Dec. 5 [was] Clair B. Edel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Edel, route 3 as a fighter pilot.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, February 02, 1944, Page 14

ASSIGNED TO “THUNDERBOLT”

Clair B. Edel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Edel, route 3, has been assigned to a P-47 “Thunderbolt,” the world’s fastest interceptor plane, at Harding field, La., and with his fellow flyers is being taught combat flying tactics, according to word received from the public relations office there. Lt. Edel was graduated a fighter pilot from a Texas pilot school and received his commission in December.

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The Globe Gazette

Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, June 19, 1944, Page 16

TAKES TRAINING IN ENGLAND

Second Lt. Clair B. Edel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Edel, route 3, is now overseas and has participated in a course designed to bridge the gap between training in the states and soldier in an active theater of war, it was announced by an air service command station somewhere in England. Lt. Edel was graduated a fighter pilot from a Texas pilot school and received his commission in December.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Thursday, September 14, 1944, Page 15

MISSING OVER FRANCE

Lt. Clair Edel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Edel, route 3, has been missing in action over France since Aug. 26, according to a telegram received Tuesday by his parents.

Lt. Edel was a pilot on a Thunderbolt and had been overseas since May. He had been awarded the air medal about 2 months ago. A letter written by him 2 days before he was missing had been received here. He received his commission in Texas last December upon being graduated from a fighter pilot school there.

NOTE: 2nd Lt. Clair B. Edel was declared deceased August 27, 1945.

Transcriptions and note by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013

Cerro Gordo Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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