First Lt. Elliott H. Beale, 22, died June 11, 1944, when a plane he was piloting as an artillery observer in the Normandy invasion exploded at treetop height.
His brother, Pvt. Robert Eugene Beale, 20, an infantryman in Gen. George Patton's Third Army died Jan. 28, 1945, in the Battle of the Bulge.
The body of the lieutenant was returned from burial in France and the body of the private returned from Luxembourg. Both were graduates of Corsicana high school in Corsicana, Texas, where they lived before entering the service.
First Lt. Elliott H. Beale, 22, died June 11, 1944, when a plane he was piloting as an artillery observer in the Normandy invasion exploded at treetop height.
His brother, Pvt. Robert Eugene Beale, 20, an infantryman in Gen. George Patton's Third Army died Jan. 28, 1945, in the Battle of the Bulge.
The body of the lieutenant was returned from burial in France and the body of the private returned from Luxembourg. Both were graduates of Corsicana high school in Corsicana, Texas, where they lived before entering the service.
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