09-09-2016, 02:41 PM
Marion, Thank you for your assistance
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We just found out last week that Edward W. Lawson was awarded the Silver Star. It does confirm that he was part of the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion.
Edward enlisted in Alaska, but the Army offices were in Seattle, so therefore is shows as a Washington enlistment. He enlisted as a private in February 1942, and reported for duty sometime later. He was in Newport News, VA when he was married, and was a 2nd Lieutenant on the marriage record. He was still in the states in Feb or Mar 1944.
We assume that he would have gone to boot camp, engineer training, and engineer OCS. But cannot locate if records of the Fort Belvoir classes are still around.
Willet Bushnell