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Sammamish Wall of Honor
Edwin Donald Crosby
Beaumont High School
St. Louis, MO
June, 1955

Research done by Claradell Shedd.

Edwin Donald Crosby

Ed graduated from Beaumont High School in June, 1955. At the time, his next of kin was Mr. and Mrs. Edwin John Crosby. His service number is AF27537708.

Edwin Donald Crosby

Year		Rank		Status

June, 1955	x		x	Graduated from Beaumont High School, St. Louis, MO.
1956	x	Education	x	Classes at Washington University in St. Louis.
April 29, 1961	x	Family	x	Married Donna Kathryn Hillis at Calvary Baptist Church, St. Louis, MO..
1961	x	US Air Force	x	While attending classes at Washington University, enlisted into US Air Force. Airman 2C/E3.
1961	x	US Air Force	x	US Air Force Basic Training. 131stTac Ftr Wg (SD) TAC.
1961	x	Military	x	*Stationed at Toul-Rosieres Air Base, France
1962	x	Family	x	Daughter born in St. Louis, MO while Ed was in France.
1962	x	US Air Force	x	From duty in France, flown back to US, landing at Lambert International Airport, St. Louis, MO.
August 20, 1962	x	US Air Force/A2C	x	Honorable Discharge. Assumed attendance at Missouri National Guard meetings.
1962	x	Employment	x	Bookkeeper at General Motors facility in St. Louis.
1965	x	Family	x	Son born.
1966	x	Family	x	Son born.
aft 1966	x	Family	x	Relocated with his wife and three children and his remarried mother to Los Angeles, CA area
date	x	Education	x	In Los Angeles area, attended Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA.
date	x	Education	x	In Los Angeles area, attended California State University, Northridge, CA.
date	x	Family	x	Family relocated to Pacific Northwest area.
June 3, 1974	x	Education	x	Check on text details.
date	x	Occupation	x	text
June 22, 1988	x	Residence	x	Purchased home in Sammamish, WA.
March 19, 2022	x	Buried	x	Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, WA

*Toul-Rosieres Air Base, France
Toul-Rosières Air Base (French) (ICAO: LFSL) is a reserve French Air Force base. It is located in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département of France, 10 miles northeast of the city of Toul, on the west side of the Route nationale 411 (N411) Highway about 1/2 mile southwest of Rosières-en-Haye.

Toul Air Base was used by American fighter and bomber aircraft during World War II. During the Cold War, Toul-Rosières Air Base was a front-line NATO base for both the French Air Force and the United States Air Force.

With the 50 TFW's departure, Seventeenth Air Force activated the 7514th Support Group to maintain Toul in a standby mode. Besides Toul, the 7514th performed this activity at Chambley, Chaumont, Etain and Phalsbourg Air Bases with minimal support facilities.

On 1 January 1960 the 7514th Support Group was renamed the 7544th Support Group, being manned by about 1,000 Airmen and 350 French nationals.

7544th Support Group
With the departure of the 50 TFW, the 7544th Support Group became the host unit at Toul.

Det #1, 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing

Douglas RB-66B-DL Destroyer Serial 54-0419, converted to EB-66E, at Det. 1, 10th TRW. This aircraft was retired to MASDC in October 1972

In 1959 the 10th TRW at RAF Alconbury, established Detachment #1, 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at TRAB to support alert aircraft and the ECM reconnaissance mission as, due to its proximity to the Iron Curtain, time to target and time on station were greatly reduced by flying from TRAB instead of from the UK.

The 10th TRW flew variants of the Douglas B-66 "Destroyer" in photo recon and ECM versions. The aircraft were deployed from RAF Alconbury, RAF Bruntingthorpe and RAF Chelveston in the United Kingdom. The B-66's would stay at Toul between two and four weeks then rotate back to England. During that time the 42nd TRS, based at RAF Chelveston, also staged ECM reconnaissance missions from TRAB, typically flying a mission from RAF Chelveston and landing at TRAB, then one or two missions from TRAB, then a mission to return to RAF Chelveston.

In the summer of 1962 the 42nd TRS with 12 B-66B "Brown Cradle" offensive ECM aircraft, and 11 RB-66C ECM Reconnaissance aircraft, transferred from RAF Chelveston to Toul-Rosieres. At the same time, the 19th TRS, flying RB-66B photo reconnaissance aircraft, also relocated from RAF Bruntingthorpe.