Eugene Frank Streicher was born on December 15, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, the son of of Louis Ray and Lillie Streicher. Louis Ray Streicher, the father, was employed at the Torrance Alcoa plant as a foreman and lived on El Prado Avenue in Torrance at the time of his son Eugene Streicher’s death.   

Eugene Streicher completed two years of high school, attending Highland Park and Huntington High, before registering for the draft in late December 1942.  He enlisted in the U.S. Army on March 2, 1943 and was stationed at Ford Ord, California before going overseas.  He was a Private First Class with the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment.

PFC Streicher was killed in action by machine gun fire on April 10, 1945 in the Negros area, an island in the central Philippines. First reported as missing, his family later received a telegram that he had made the supreme sacrifice.  The area where Streicher was killed shortly before the war ended was the site of fierce fighting against well-entrenched Japanese forces. 

In August 1948, PFC Eugene Streicher’s remains were returned to California aboard the Army transport SS Dalton Victory ship, and he is buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, San Mateo County, California. 

The Torrance Herald reported at the time that Eugene Streicher’s brothers served in the U.S. Army Air Forces and in the U.S. Navy during the war.