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Ed Lahti was born on 28 April 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Runaway Car (1997), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and Her Costly Affair (1996). He died on 26 April 1998 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Producer, Production Manager
- April 28, 1944
- Ed Lahti
- April 26, 1998
Mar 3, 2024 · Edward H. Lahti, Colonel, United States Army (Retired), 88, who made an unmatched record as a parachute infantry regimental commander in World War II, died September 2, 2001 after a long illness at Northern Virginia Community Hospital.
- "We're Going to Japan"
- A Historic Airlift to Japan
- Cake-Slicers
- First Flag Raised Over Japan
- Curraheed
- General Macarthur's Honor Guard
- The Payoff - General Macarthur's Landing
- The Angels and The Imperial Palace
- The First Flag Raised Over Tokyo
When Japan announced their intention to surrender on August 14, 1945, Major General Joseph May Swing's 11th Airborne Division sat, bored, on Okinawa near the National Cemetery, asking themselves if the surrender was all just a ruse to lure them onto the mainland only to destroy the first Americans to land. And since they were an airborne division, ...
After a few days’ delay due to Typhoon Louise, on August 30 (Z-Day) the combat-loaded 511th PIR’s vanguard boarded their craft and led the 11th Airborne past Mt. Fujiyama and Kamarkura’s great bronze Buddha on their way to the bomb-damaged Atsugi Airfield 15 miles outside Yokohama. With B-29s and P-51s flying escort, the 11th Airborne’s second hist...
When a well-tanned Gen. Swing dropped his six-foot frame onto the Atsugi tarmac at 0600 on August 30 (Z-Day), he was the highest-ranking Allied officer in Japan. He was greeted by a delegation of Imperial admirals and generals dressed in black, including head of the Imperial Army’s intelligence department Lieutenant General Seizo Arisue (Swing is c...
After General Swing’s staff set up the first Allied CP in Japan at 0730 in a hangar, William “Bill” F. Rudolph of the 511th Airborne Signals Company was ordered to guard the ultra-secret SIGABA code machine as Swing established contact with MacArthur’s HQ in Manila. Ten minutes later a photographer for Life told Rudolph to help raise the American f...
While Swing and Eichelberger conversed on the tarmac, the 11th Airborne’s G-3 Lieutenant Colonel Henry “Hank” Burgess rode with a group of Japanese officers thirteen miles to a building to discuss what would happen when MacArthur arrived (wanting the Japanese to lose face, General Swing refused to go). Following the meeting, Burgess stood to leave ...
Almost two months earlier, while the 511th PIR was still outside Lipa on Luzon, MacArthur asked Gen. Swing to form part of his Honor Guard for Japan from the 11th Airborne. Swing passed word to his regimental commanders and Col. Lahti ordered his company commanders to select their best paratroopers for the duty, with the stipulation that each troop...
At 1419, eight hours after Gen. Swing landed, Gen. MacArthur’s converted C-54 Bataan touched down at Atsugi amid great fanfare. Lieutenant Ermatinger and the 511th’s Honor Guard moved to stand under the craft’s wings and watched the corncob pipe-carrying, sunglasses-wearing general greet Swing and the 11th Airborne Band on the tarmac. After the Ang...
After a handful of trips, Private First Class Edward J. Baumgarten of G Company and his buddy took a wrong turn. They kept going, hoping to find the landing strips before nightfall, and after about an hour, Baumgarten found an English-speaking Japanese who pointed to a large, green area and said, “Imperial Palace, one block.” The two lost, lowly pa...
While I will skip the topic of the Surrender Ceremony onboard the U.S.S. Missouri for now, there is one related event that I'd like to share before I close. The day after the Surrender Ceremony, September 3 (Z+4), the 11th Airborne’s twenty-three-year-old Lieutenant Bernard “Bud” Stapleton of Syracuse, NY, and photographer Captain Morton Sontheimer...
COL Edward H. Lahti served as Commander of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division, during World War II
Jan 7, 2014 · HOUGHTON – For nearly 50 years, Ed Lahti, 73, has been building experimental vehicles he thinks could revolutionize the market. It’s been an uphill battle, and he’s now facing a roadblock he may not be able to overcome.
Apr 26, 1998 · Ed Lahti is known as an Producer, Line Producer, Supervising Producer, and Unit Production Manager. Some of their work includes Runaway Car, Mr. Boogedy, Dead Man's Revenge, and Her Costly Affair.
Inventor Edwin Lahti is a walking legend. From his brilliantly simple inventions like the Blizzard Sno-plow to his RotoStar engine, Edwin Lahti is an inventor extraordinaire. His friends and many professors and engineers often compare him to Nikola Tesla.
