Eugene Gray served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a Second Lieutenant with the 509th Fighter Squadron, 405th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force during World War II. A P-47 Pilot, he was killed in action in Germany on September 24, 1944. He is buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial outside Saint-Avold, Moselle, France. Most of the dead buried here were killed while driving the German forces from the fortress city of Metz, France toward the Siegfried Line and the Rhine River. Lt. Gray was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
