Reno Man Hurt
As Shed Caves
   Eual Whiteman, 30-year-old Reno resident, is in the Washoe medical center today recovering from back injures  received when a shed collapsed and fell on him at Tahoe Cedars Wednesday.  Medical attendants at the hospital described his condition as :rapidly improving."  X-rays are to be taken today to determine the full extent of his injures.
   The accident in which Whiteman was involved occurred late Wednesday afternoon.  Thursday afternoon he was taken in a pickup truck by Al Sangster to Tahoe City.  From there he was transported by a snowcat as far as Deer Park lodge on Highway 89 where the snocat broke down.  Gerry Walters, a Lake Tahoe lodge owner, then took Whiteman to Truckee where he was brought to the local hospital in an ambulance.

[The Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, NV, Monday, March 24, 1942, Main Edition, Page 3]

[Jumpmaster note:  the distance from Tahoe Cedars, NV on the western shore of Lake Tahoe to Truckee, VA is approximately 23 miles and involves some mountainous terrain.  Travel by snocat and then pickup truck must have been a jolting experience to someone with a back injury.]

(courtesy of Juelette)

Grave marker for Eual H. Whiteman in Plot: V, 4123 of the Willamette National Cemetery, Portland (Multnomah county), Oregon.

Eual enlisted at Sedalia AAB, Warrensburg, MO on 25 November 1940 as he changed from National Guard service to the Field Artillery. 

Pvt Whiteman later volunteered for parachutist duty and after completion of jump school was shipped to England.  On 18 September 1944 he was transferred from the 82nd AB Division Replacement Depot in Leicester, England to the 508th PIR.

His military awards included the Combat Infantryman badge for action during the Ardennes campaign, from 18 December 1944 to 20 February 1945.