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Edward William Boudreau

Sergeant, 24th Army Air Forces Ferrying Wing, Air Transport Command

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Edward William Boudreau

    Edward was born the 13th of October 1910 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the oldest of seven children born to Joseph and Florence Boudreau.  He attended Marlborough High School and worked at a shoe company in Hudson, Massachusetts while living with his parents at 1 Frye street extension in Marlborough.  He married Dorothy Maclean in 1932.

    He enlisted into the Army Air Corps the 15th of December 1941 shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Following his initial basic training he was assigned to the 24th Army Air Forces Ferrying Wing at Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida. While swimming in West Palm Beach he drowned the 30th of April 1943. He is buried at St Mary’s Cemetery in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

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