Edgar S. Crouthamel
Rank: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Serial: O-749500
Unit: 328th Bomber Squadron, 93rd Bomber Group
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: Locustwood Cemetery, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Awards: Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Biography
Edgar S. Crouthamel
Second Lieutenant Edgar S. Crouthamel was born on February 2, 1920 to the Reverend Edgar C. and Gertrude Crouthamel. His family moved to Gloucester City, New Jersey sometime after 1930. He was a graduate of Haddon Heights High School (class of 1937) and Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. He starred in football and baseball while at Drexel, leading the team in scoring as a wide receiver.
Edgar Crouthamel entered the Army and qualified for service in the Army Air Force. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at Stockton Field, California on June 18, 1943. He was then assigned to fly two-engine transports and was based in Boise, Idaho prior to being assigned to a bomber crew, flying B-24 bombers. He had completed 18 missions when, on April 20, 1944, he was killed when his plane crashed in England on the return leg of an air raid on Germany. Edgar Crouthamel was survived by his parents, of 927 Gaunt Street, Gloucester City; his wife, the former Rena E. Mickle, of 305 South Girard Street, Woodbury, New Jersey; a brother, John D. Crouthamel; and five sisters.
Lt. Crouthamel Funeral Held
Services for Lt. Edgar S. Crouthamel, 23, were held today in St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, West Collingswood. Burial was in Locustwood Memorial park.
Lieutenant Crouthamel, who lived at 937 Gaunt street, Gloucester, was killed April 20, 1944, in Folkstone, England.
Lieutenant Crouthamel was a graduate of Haddon Heights High school and Drexel Institute of Technology. He starred in football and baseball at Drexel and in his senior year, 1942, he was highest scorer as left end on the grid team.
He went into the air corps in August, 1942, and received his commission in Stockton, Calif. He went to England in October, 1943. He had completed 18 missions and was a copilot of the Liberator, “All Baba.” He held the Air Medal with two Oak-Leaf clusters.
Surviving are his father, the Rev. Edgar C. Crouthamel, former pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Magnolia; his mother, Gertrude B.; five sisters, Mrs. Herbert S. Eadline, Collingswood; Elsie and Joanne, both of Gloucester; Mrs. Frank Sweeten, Westville, and Miriam, a nurse at the Lankenau hospital, Philadelphia; and a brother, John D. Gloucester. The funeral was under direction of Foster’s funeral home, Collingswood.
Photos
Gravestone and dog tag of Second Lieutenant Edgar S. Crouthamel.