P-47 Pilot on Strafing and Bombing Tiger Tanks During WWII | Edwin Cottrell

American Veterans Center

Edwin Cottrell was born January 17, 1922 in Oklahoma City, but would move with his his family at a very young age to Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania where he grew up. Edwin had some sense of the growing war in Europe, but wasn't concerned about it as he enrolled in college. December 7, 1941 would prove