Eugene J. Icenhour was born in 1911 in Pennsylvania. He resided in Beaver County, Pennsylvania prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on September 24, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a heat treater and also as Married. Eugene served as a Technician Fifth Grade, 464th Ordnance Evacuation Company, U.S. Army during World War II.

On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. T5 Icenhour is now buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France.

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