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   To 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Camp Blanding, Fla. --- From Cincinnati, William T. Bailey, Edward F. Englehardt, and William A. Klug; from Covington, Eugene J. Klug' from Newport, Grady C. Carr.

[Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday November 14, 1942, Page 9]

Paratroops
Listed As Missing
With American Forces
On French Coast
Five Other North Kentucky
Men Wooded, Another Unaccounted For
[2nd paragraph]
Sgt Eugene J. Klug, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Klug, 645 Oak st., Ludlow, has been missing since C-day, his father ws notified yesterday.  He also was a paratrooper [referring to William Clark in paragraph 1] Inducted ijn October 1942, [see article above] he went overseas in January of this year.  He formerly attended Ludlow High School and was a bellboy at the Hotel Staten when he was inducted.

Kentuckians Liberated

[see column 1, 4th entry]

Sgt Eugene J. Klug, husband of Mrs.. Mary Lou Klug, 409 Sandford St., Covington, from a German prison camp.  He was captured June 6, 1944.

[Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday May 24, 1945, Page 10]

He was an Army Veteran serving in WWII in which he was a P.O.W.

Gene is a retired Supervisor with the Los Angeles County, California Mechanical Department. He was a member of St. Anthony Parish in Taylor Mill, KY. He was an avid golfer and enjoyed yoga, reading and traveling with his family in their Motor Home.

Gene is survived by his Loving Wife: Lorraine M. Klug; Daughters: Gail (Steve) Reed and Denise Klug; Sister: Doretta (Ray) Moore; 4 Grandchildren and 13 Great Grandchildren.

Visitation will be Saturday, May 17, 2014 from 9:00 AM until Mass of Christian Burial at 10 AM at St. Anthony Church, 485 Grand Avenue, Taylor Mill, KY 41015.

A Honor Guard Service and Interment will be in Mother of God Cemetery in Fort Wright, KY. Connley Brothers Funeral Home in Latonia, KY is serving the family. Online Condolences may be expressed at www.connleybrothersfuneralhome.com

[Published in the Kentucky Enquirer from May 15 to May 16, 2014]

Grave marker for Ernest J. Klug and spouse in the Mother Of God Cemetery, Fort Wright (Kenton), Kentucky,  Neither are yet deceased and the stone only marks their intended burial site.

Eugene enlisted in the Army at Ft Thomas, Newport, KY on 6 November 1942.  He was initially assigned to Co F, 508th but by November 1943 he was transferred to Headquarters Company, 1st.Battalion.

Pvt Klug made the jump into Normandy on 6 June 1944 and was captured that same day.  He was liberated from Stalag 4B after spending nearly a year as a POW.

On 3 June 1945 Pvt Klug [see line 26, at left) was one of many ex-POWs  that arrived in the New York, NY harbor aboard the SS Monticello.

NOTE:  The Monticello was originally launched in 1927. During World War II, she was acquired by the United States and was refitted as a troopship—renamed USS Monticello (AP-61) in 1942. Returned to the Italian Line in 1947 under her original name of SS Conte Grande, the vessel remained in s3rvice until it was scrapped in 1961.