Show MEETS DEATH DURING IWO JIMA BATTLE corp roy boy K eastman 21 son of george W and sarah L eastman of ogden was killed in action on iwo jima volcano island feb 20 while serving with the fifth division of the U S marines according to word received from washington D C corp eastman was born bom in woodruff aug 9 1923 Hs he attended morgan public schools and the davis is county high school and was employed p 10 lo leq by y the thea acos babi ning boand co and the layton sugar co prior to entering the service from clearfield he enlisted in the marine corpe corp 1 feb 12 1943 and received boot training at san diego calif he then joined the paratroop division and went overseas in september septembers 1943 he parti participated in the battle of the solomons on bougainville bougainvillea Bou gainville and choiseul Crois eul where the secor second paratroop battalion won a citation the paratroopers were then sent to the states and corp eastman had a 30 day furlough in february of 1944 he was placed in the tha fifth marine davison an and d again went overseas in august of 1944 surviving are his parents and the following brothers and sisters E G easthan milton wash sam ras eastman tihan evanston wyo corp conray B eastman prisoner of the japanese in in the philippines when last heard from pat vaughn G eastman somewhere in ili the philippines mrs eula ot 01 ogden mrs sarah carter morgan mrs bert giles hueneme calif a maternal grandmother hattie S bryson bountiful |