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SECOND LIEUTENANT LLOYD
EADLINE had lived at 9 Fraser Avenue in Collingswood NJ before entering
the Army Air Force. A fighter pilot, Lt. Eadline
was flying a P-51D Mustang, serial # 44-63248, designated HL-Y in
his squadron, when he was killed in action. The Camden
Courier-Post reported in January of 1945 that Lt. Eadline had been cited
for completing 25 combat missions. One of four brothers in the service,
he was lost in Germany on February 24, 1945. His younger brother Allan,
in the infantry in the Philippines a fighter pilot, had been killed in
Europe only four days earlier.
Lloyd Eadline had graduated high school in Phoenixville PA. Before
entering the service he worked for the Goodyear Rubber Company. He had
entered the Army in September 1942, qualified for the flight duty in
March, 1943. He graduated flight school and was
commissioned in January 1944. He was sent overseas in August 1944. He
was survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Eadline of the Fraser Avenue address,
and brothers George Eadline, a First Lieutenant with the Army Signal
Corps in Europe, and
RT2C Herbert S. Eadline, in the Navy. Herbert Eadline's
brother-in-law, Edgar
Crouthamel, was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Army
Air Force in England in 1944. |
