President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, seated left, presents the first two Air Medals ever awarded by the U.S. to CAP subchasers Maj. Hugh Sharp Jr., center, and 1st Lt. Eddie Edwards, second from right, for the rescue of 1st Lt. Henry Cross. Looking on is James Landis, wartime chief of the Office of Civilian Defense.
One of Civil Air Patrol’s most famous World War II “subchasers,” honored for heroism by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died Dec. 5 after a long illness. He was 96.
Col. Edmond I. “Eddie” Edwards was widely known as the first Coastal Patrol (later Civil Air Patrol) pilot to spot a Nazi U-boat and radio its position to U.S. naval forces. The vessel crash-dived and headed farther out to sea, where it was less of a menace to U.S. shipping. This occurred March 10, 1942, near the start of the war.
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