Edwin E. Ellis

Edwin E. Ellis
Edwin E. Ellis

Edwin Earl Ellis (born August 28, 1924) was an American Inventor and Photographer. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1949 as a photographer. During this time he participated in the landings at the Battle of Okinawa. Most notably, he was a photographer on Operation Highjump,^[1] becoming one of the first people to visually document Antarctica. The Ellis Fjord ^[2] and the Ellis Glacier ^[3] are named after him. After the South Pole, he went to Norfolk, and was part of the crew that commissioned the USS Coral Sea (CV-43).

As an Inventor he holds a patent for an awning support system.^[4]

He died April 2, 1989 in Paducah, Kentucky.

References

1. ↑ "Operation Highjump". South-Pole.com. 
2. ↑ "Ellis Fjord". Geographic Names Information System U.S. Geological Survey. 
3. ↑ "Ellis Glacier". Geographic Names Information System U.S. Geological Survey. 
4. ↑ "Awning Patent". U.S. Patent Office.