The Telephone Register, McMinnville, Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1946
LT. ERVIN CUC DIES IN ARMY PLANE CRASH
Suddenly recalled to duty while spending a furlough here, Lt. Ervin P. Cuc, 27, veteran of south Pacific action with the famed 41st division, was killed Tuesday in the crash of an army transport while enroute back to his station at Camp Atterbury, Ind., the war department has notified his mother, Mrs. Mary Cuc Kennedy of 707 Ford.
Lt. Cuc was one of the 23 who died in the crash of a C-47 plane near Truckee, Cal.
A graduate of McMinnville high school and student at Oregon State college when called to duty with the 162nd infantry unit from McMinnville, Lt. Cuc went overseas with the 41st division in March 1942 and served several months in Australia and New Guinea before being sent back to the states for hospitalization for injuries received in the New Guinea campaign against the Japanese. After 11 months in the hospital, he was stationed in Texas and was transferred to Camp Atterbury in January 1945 where he was an officer in the separation center there.
Lt. Cuc arrived at home on Mar. 8 to spend a 30-day furlough but was suddenly recalled to duty and left for Portland and Seattle, where he boarded an airplane, on Sunday.
No word as to when the military funeral will be held here has been received by the family, it was indicated today. Lt. Cuc had intended to remain in the army for another two-year period. He entered the National Guard as an enlisted man and was promoted to second lieutenant from the ranks.
Survivors include the mother; the step-father, Walter Kennedy; and two brothers, Lucien J. Cuc of Coos Bay and Edmont Cuc of McMinnville.
LT. ERVIN CUC DIES IN ARMY PLANE CRASH
Suddenly recalled to duty while spending a furlough here, Lt. Ervin P. Cuc, 27, veteran of south Pacific action with the famed 41st division, was killed Tuesday in the crash of an army transport while enroute back to his station at Camp Atterbury, Ind., the war department has notified his mother, Mrs. Mary Cuc Kennedy of 707 Ford.
Lt. Cuc was one of the 23 who died in the crash of a C-47 plane near Truckee, Cal.
A graduate of McMinnville high school and student at Oregon State college when called to duty with the 162nd infantry unit from McMinnville, Lt. Cuc went overseas with the 41st division in March 1942 and served several months in Australia and New Guinea before being sent back to the states for hospitalization for injuries received in the New Guinea campaign against the Japanese. After 11 months in the hospital, he was stationed in Texas and was transferred to Camp Atterbury in January 1945 where he was an officer in the separation center there.
Lt. Cuc arrived at home on Mar. 8 to spend a 30-day furlough but was suddenly recalled to duty and left for Portland and Seattle, where he boarded an airplane, on Sunday.
No word as to when the military funeral will be held here has been received by the family, it was indicated today. Lt. Cuc had intended to remain in the army for another two-year period. He entered the National Guard as an enlisted man and was promoted to second lieutenant from the ranks.
Survivors include the mother; the step-father, Walter Kennedy; and two brothers, Lucien J. Cuc of Coos Bay and Edmont Cuc of McMinnville.
The Telephone Register, McMinnville, Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1946
LT. ERVIN CUC DIES IN ARMY PLANE CRASH
Suddenly recalled to duty while spending a furlough here, Lt. Ervin P. Cuc, 27, veteran of south Pacific action with the famed 41st division, was killed Tuesday in the crash of an army transport while enroute back to his station at Camp Atterbury, Ind., the war department has notified his mother, Mrs. Mary Cuc Kennedy of 707 Ford.
Lt. Cuc was one of the 23 who died in the crash of a C-47 plane near Truckee, Cal.
A graduate of McMinnville high school and student at Oregon State college when called to duty with the 162nd infantry unit from McMinnville, Lt. Cuc went overseas with the 41st division in March 1942 and served several months in Australia and New Guinea before being sent back to the states for hospitalization for injuries received in the New Guinea campaign against the Japanese. After 11 months in the hospital, he was stationed in Texas and was transferred to Camp Atterbury in January 1945 where he was an officer in the separation center there.
Lt. Cuc arrived at home on Mar. 8 to spend a 30-day furlough but was suddenly recalled to duty and left for Portland and Seattle, where he boarded an airplane, on Sunday.
No word as to when the military funeral will be held here has been received by the family, it was indicated today. Lt. Cuc had intended to remain in the army for another two-year period. He entered the National Guard as an enlisted man and was promoted to second lieutenant from the ranks.
Survivors include the mother; the step-father, Walter Kennedy; and two brothers, Lucien J. Cuc of Coos Bay and Edmont Cuc of McMinnville.
LT. ERVIN CUC DIES IN ARMY PLANE CRASH
Suddenly recalled to duty while spending a furlough here, Lt. Ervin P. Cuc, 27, veteran of south Pacific action with the famed 41st division, was killed Tuesday in the crash of an army transport while enroute back to his station at Camp Atterbury, Ind., the war department has notified his mother, Mrs. Mary Cuc Kennedy of 707 Ford.
Lt. Cuc was one of the 23 who died in the crash of a C-47 plane near Truckee, Cal.
A graduate of McMinnville high school and student at Oregon State college when called to duty with the 162nd infantry unit from McMinnville, Lt. Cuc went overseas with the 41st division in March 1942 and served several months in Australia and New Guinea before being sent back to the states for hospitalization for injuries received in the New Guinea campaign against the Japanese. After 11 months in the hospital, he was stationed in Texas and was transferred to Camp Atterbury in January 1945 where he was an officer in the separation center there.
Lt. Cuc arrived at home on Mar. 8 to spend a 30-day furlough but was suddenly recalled to duty and left for Portland and Seattle, where he boarded an airplane, on Sunday.
No word as to when the military funeral will be held here has been received by the family, it was indicated today. Lt. Cuc had intended to remain in the army for another two-year period. He entered the National Guard as an enlisted man and was promoted to second lieutenant from the ranks.
Survivors include the mother; the step-father, Walter Kennedy; and two brothers, Lucien J. Cuc of Coos Bay and Edmont Cuc of McMinnville.
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