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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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.