Fiske, William b. June 11, 1911 d. August 18, 1940 Pilot Officer Fiske was an American pilot who joined the Royal Air Force. He became the first U.S. citizen to be killed in World War II. The son of William and Beulah Fiske, he was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a wealthy banking family whose ancestors had come from Suffolk, England in the seventeenth century. He attended school in Chicago, went to France with his family in 1924, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1928 where he studied Economics and History. He was well known on the Cresta...[Read More] Cause of death: Casualty of war St Mary and St Blaise Churchyard, Boxgrove, West Sussex, England