Decades after his death, WWII soldier keeps promise to sister to come home
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Steve Liewer
When her big brother, Eugene, left Lincoln to join the Army during World War II, 13-year-old Ella Mae McBride begged him to stay.
“Don’t worry,” he told her. “I’ll be back.”
Then in February 1945, the uniformed officers knocked on the door of the McBride home on South 12th Street. Eugene, a sergeant in the 311th Infantry Regiment, was missing in Germany. Later, he was declared dead, but his body was never recovered.
The McBride family — including his parents, Rufus and Rosalie McBride, sisters Elaine, Donna and Ella Mae, and his bride, Eileen — would place a grave marker in Lincoln Memorial Park.
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