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Personal info

Full name
CASTON, Victor
Date of birth
14 April 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York City, New York
Hometown
California
Religion
Catholic

Military service

Service number
O1996072
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
451st Bombardment Squadron,
322nd Bombardment Group, Medium
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 March 1945
Place of death
Goincourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 43 22

Immediate family

Members
Eliezer L. Caston (father)
Ricucia (Codron) Caston (mother)
Isaac Caston (brother)
Joseph Caston (brother)

More information

2nd Lt Victor Caston attended Stuyvesant High School in New York and graduated from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles in 1939. He attended college for two years. He was employed at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

He was killed on 18th March 1945 in the territory of the municipality of Goncourt during a terrible tragedy That day, a few minutes after takeoff from the airbase of Beauvais-Tillé for a mission over Germany, the B-26 "Marauder" in which he was flying crashed, caught by the blast of the explosion of two other "Marauders" which collided whilst getting into formation.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Solers, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.findagrave.com, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, WWII Draft Card
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, Manual Arts High School 1939