Orange County, Florida
United States Army
Second Lieutenant

2Lt Eston J. Barr was a co-pilot of a Douglas RB-18A of the 11th Air Force based out of Shamya, Alaska.  On Feb. 16, 1944 the plane left to go 50 miles on a routine flight to Amchitka island, in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands.  The last contact with the plane was from Amchitka radio at 11:45.   A search was made and the wreckage was found on May 18 at the foot of Kiska volcano.  Originally buried in a Kiska cemetery, he was reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 30, 1948.  

Survived by wife Marian R. (Harrell) Barr, daughter Anita; his parents Eston M. and Lille (Paul) Barr of Orlando and later Merritt Island, and sister Frances.