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Don was killed returning from WWII in an airplane. The plane malfunctioned and Don bailed out. Ben Eisner said Don was killed when his parachute tangled in a tree.
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Pfc Donald Eisner, 28, was killed in an Army air transport near Dale, Ore., October 19, the war department has notified his wife. The plane malfunctioned and Don bailed out. Ben Eisner said Don was killed when his parachute tangled in a tree. He was attached to Marine Barracks - Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington. Don was wounded in action on Iwo Jima. Eisner was recently home on convalescent leave. He had been hospitalized at the San Diego naval hospital, and was en route to Bremerton, Wash. for discharge when the crash occurred.
He was born in Cass Lake, Minnesota, on July 30, 1916 and was a resident of Grand Forks County, North Dakota when he entered the Marine Corps in June, 1944, he went overseas in November, 1944.
Besides his widow, Pfc. Eisner is survived by two children, Gary Lee and Jolene Rae; his mother, Mrs. Fred Reibe, Owen, Wis., six brothers, Rudolph, Sam, Ben and Ray, Grand Forks; Albert, Astoria, Ore., and Edward, Eau Claire, Wis., and four sisters, Mrs Verne Walters and Mrs. Jasper Klang, Grand Forks; Mrs Russell Cummings, East Grand Forks; and Betty, Owen, Wis.
He is buried in Lot 4, Grave 3, Block 182 at Memorial Park Cemetery, Grand Forks, North Dakota.