SERVICE IN FRANCE FOR LIEUT. ESKIL Services for Flight Lt Odin John Eskil, Jr. 26, of the Royal Canadian Air Force, RCAF, who was killed August 2 in action in the Laigie-Lisieux area, in France, were held Aug. 3 at the Bayeay Military Cemetery in France. He is the only son of Mr. & Mrs. O.F. Eskil, Jr., Oslo Avenue, Iron Mountain, Mich. Lt. Odin was a graduate of Iron Mountain High School & worked in the Ford Motor Plant. He enlisted in the RCAF in Windsor, Canada. After receiving his pilot’s license, he as assigned to duty in the Aleutians & England. He served with the Allied Fliers who softened up the German defenses in preparation for the invasion of France. He was awaiting a leave when he was killed. Besides is parents he leaves 2 sisters: Miss Barbara, Pinecrest Sanatorium, Powers, Mich. & Miss Norman, Detroit, Mich.
(Monday, August 21, 1944, The Iron Mountain Daily newspaper, Dickinson, Michigan.) 
The complete article can be found in the above newspaper at the Dickinson County Library, Iron Mountain, Michigan. A cenotaph remembers him aton Mountain Cemetery Park Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan; PLOT: Cherokee Lot 72 No 57 Source: Find a grave.