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FRED MARTIN EDWARDS
Machinist’s Mate Second Class, United States Naval Reserve
Service# 6600557
USS PC-558
PC-461-class submarine chaser, commissioned November 19, 1942
Date of Enlistment: December 11, 1941
Home or Place of Enlistment: Pocatello, Idaho
Killed/Missing in Action: May 9, 1944
USS PC-558 was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-230 north
of Salerno while patrolling off the coast of Italy on 9 May 1944.
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