Dan Moroni Eastman

Military
media-48294.jpeg UPL 48294 1LT Dan Moroni Eastman
Pilot
416th BG - 671st BS - 9th AF

Object Number - UPL 48294 - 1LT Dan Moroni Eastman Pilot 416th BG - 671st BS - 9th AF

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Nicknames: It's Just a Step Over/Uncle Bob
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 671st Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 671st Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Tooele, Utah 25 February 1919
Tooele, Utah 3 July 1941 151 West Vine Street

Other

Final 416th BG Combat Mission

Lippe, Germany 11 March 1944

Other

First 416th BG Combat Mission

Brest, France 25 August 1944

Died

Murray, Utah 25 January 2020 Dan M. Eastman 1919 ~ 2020 . Dan M. Eastman died January 25, 2020. Born December 25, 1919 in Tooele, Utah, son of Frank G. and Mary Elsie England Eastman. He married LaVelle James on January 9, 1946; they later divorced. Dan married Ruby Wolfensburger on August 1, 1978. He was a proud member of the Tooele High School class of "38," where, though the smallest man on the team, he played fullback! After high school, he served an LDS mission in the Central States, 1939-41, arriving home just in time for Thanksgiving. Little more than a week later, on December 8, 1941, he enlisted in the US Army. After helping build the new Wendover Air Force Base, he went to flight school and became a pilot. He flew 28 combat missions in A-20 and A-26 medium bombers in the 416th Bomb Group. 9th Air Force, in the European Theater from D-Day until the close of the war. Dan graduated from the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science in 1946 and spent the next 60+ years in funeral service in Elko, Nevada and at Eastman's Evans and Early Mortuary. Dan was past President of Evans and Early, the Utah Funeral Directors Association, the Ambassador Club, and the Bay View Duck Club, also a past member of Acacia Lodge #22, F&AM.

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