Floyd A. Kittrell was born on April 23, 1923 in Muscogee, Florida. He was the son of Floyd Weston Kittrell and Maude Evolyn Arnold Kittrell. Floyd served in the Troop E, 44th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized) as a Technician 4th Grade 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. T4 Kittrell died at the age of 22 and is now buried in the Lathram Chapel Cemetery, Cantonment, Escambia County, Florida, USA.