Image: Philadelphia in the 1940s, the city where Maloney grew up. No photos of Maloney are available online, but this area is an environment that he could have been familiar with in his early life.

Full Name: Edward Vincent Maloney 

Location of Enlistment: Philadelphia, PA

Parents Names: Mr. Patrick J. Maloney (Father), Mrs. Marie B. Carney (Mother)

Birthday: July 4, 1919

Marital Status: Single

Age when war began: 20 (1939)

Age at time of enlistment: 22

Edward Maloney was born in 1919 to twenty-seven-year-old Patrick Maloney and his wife, twenty-six-year-old Marie (Carney) Maloney. Maloney was raised on a small street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completing high school, and working as an attendant (specifics unknown) until he enlisted into the Army in 1940. His father worked as a crane operator and he had four younger siblings (Bernadette Maloney, born in 1923, Eugene Brenden Maloney, born in 1926, Eileen Maloney, and Marie Maloney).