Private
United States Army
Eldon C. Prugh, the son of Norval and Valeen Prugh, was born on 4 October 1944, in Burlington, Iowa. He was a member of the Christ Episcopal Church.
Eldon graduated from Burlington High School in 1941 and attended one year at Burlington Junior College.
He worked at the Iowa Ordnance Plant in Middletown, during the period of construction, and later worked in the engineering department at J. I. Case Company when the company was turning out plane parts.
Eldon was well known in the area riding circles, and he raised and trained horses on a small acreage on Madison Avenue, south of Burlington. He was the former secretary of the Des Moines County Riding Club.
Eldon entered the service the summer of 1944 and arrived in the European Theater of Operations on 23 December 1944, where he served as a radio operator for a tank battalion. In a War Department telegram, Eldon’s parents were informed that he was Killed-In-Action in Germany on 1 March 1945.
Eldon was survived by his parents; two sisters, Marianne Ahrold and Sherry; one brother, Burton; his grandfather, B.A. Prugh; and two nephews and one niece.
Source of information:
1. The Burlington Hawk-eye Gazette, 15 March 1945, page 1.
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