Edward "Ed" Strauss

1923 - 2022  (98 years)

• Name	Edward "Ed" Strauss
  Born	4 Nov 1923	Powassan Twp., Parry Sound District, Ontario
  Gender	Male
  Military	WW2
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-214138
  Died	29 Mar 2022	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I214138	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Marja "Mary Ann" Rektor,   b. 17 Aug 1926, Ceske Novosilka, Volyne Oblast, Poland ,   d. 1 Oct 2018, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 92 years)
  Married	1946
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F58512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  'I have paid the price. You never forget it' ST. JACOBS - Ed Strauss surprised the enemy on D-Day, attacking them from above and behind. He was a gunner on board an Allied bomber, flying above Normandy as the Allies invaded Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944. On the beaches below he spied German soldiers in open-air pillboxes. They were fixated on the sand in front of them. He asked the pilot if he could fly in low and over the pillboxes, approaching from behind. "I can skim the treetops," the pilot said. The enemy never saw them coming. From his rear turret, Strauss fired four Browning machine guns into the men below. "I think I killed them all," he recalls. "They didn't have a chance to shoot at me." It was war. Strauss ably defended comrades who were storming the beaches. But still. "I'm sorry I was there that day," he said. "I have paid the price. You never forget it." Strauss, 97, completed dozens of missions with the Royal Canadian Air Force in helping to defeat Nazi Germany, 75 years ago on May 8, 1945. The St. Jacobs man spoke about his war to grandson Kevin Strauss, 22, who recorded their conversations..... 'I have paid the price. You never forget it'. (2020). Retrieved 7 May 2020, from https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2020/05/07/i-have-paid-the-price-you-never-forget-it.html

  
  

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  Died - 29 Mar 2022 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth