Joseph O. Doyon was born on October 31, 1912 in Canada. He resided in Kennebec County, Maine prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on December 31, 1943 in Portland, Maine. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Elevator operator and also as Married. Joseph served as a Private First Class, 4th Signal Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, U.S. Army during World War II.

On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. PFC Doyon died at the age of 32 and is now buried in the Saint Francis Catholic Cemetery, Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, USA.

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