Stars & Stripes Newspaper (Pacific Edition)
27 July 1952
(Viewed online at Ancestry)
Air Force Hero Dies
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Brig. Gen. Arthur Edmond Easterbrook, 58, retired Air Force hero injured in a fall from an avocado tree, died of a heart attack Friday night at the veterans administration hospital here.
He had been a paraplegic patient since Jan. 20, 1950, following a fall from the tree while he was picking avocados at the home of friends in Samoalana, Calif., where he lived.
Gen. Easterbrook shot down five enemy planes in World War I, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross, with oak leaf cluster. He was on the staff of the late Gen. H. H. Arnold when Arnold was chief of staff of the Army Air Force.
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