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About Eston Cameron Kuhn
He entered the service from West Virginia and was 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army Air Force during WW II. He was killed in action on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and is buried at Brittany American Cemetery in France. He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart. The C47, which he was co-piloting, was towing a glider of the 327th Glider infantry regiment when it was hit by a German Flak and crashed into flames in a swamp five miles southwest of the landing zone.
The pilot was killed by the Germans as he crawled from the burning wreckage. Kuhn and two others were captured by the Germans. Kuhn was killed later in the day in a strafing attack on the German trucks they were riding in by one of our own planes.
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Eston Cameron Kuhn's Timeline
| 1919 |
May 27, 1919
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Boone County, West Virginia, United States
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| 1944 |
June 6, 1944
Age 25
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France
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Brittany American Cemetery, Saint-James, Manche, Lower Normandy, France
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