Edwin E. Ellis
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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). He was also the founder of the Ellis Trailer Park in Paducah. The land it sat on is now owned by Cardinal Lanes.
As an Inventor he holds a patent for an awning support system.[4]
He died April 2, 1989 in Paducah, Kentucky.