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208 Blue Sky Drive, Glenwood City, WI 54013-8557
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| Family Information: |
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Parents: Oscar and Tillie; Wife: M. Irene; Child: Stanley.
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| Hometown: |
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Glenwood City, WI |
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| Date Entered Service: |
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March 7, 1941 |
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| Service Number: |
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16024963
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| Bomb Group: |
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HQ & HQ SQ 58th Bomb Wing, AAF, AUS Component
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| Location of Unit: |
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Tinian - June 8, 1945 |
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| Awards/Decorations: |
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American Theater Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Theater Service Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Carbine MKM, Lapel Button, Overseas Service
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| Service Schools Attended: |
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| Military Specialty(ies): |
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MOS 502-Administrative NCO
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| Rank Upon Discharge: |
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Staff Sergeant |
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| Were you a POW? |
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No |
| If so, where? |
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| Were you interned? |
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No |
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| Date Transferred from the 58th: |
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| Date Discharged from the 58th: |
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December 12, 1945 |
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| Post-WWII Military Service: |
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| Post-WWII Civilian Occupation(s): |
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Various jobs from time of discharge from the service until August 1, 1948, when I was hired to work in our local furniture store and funeral home where I managed the retail furniture store business and worked also in the funeral business until August of 1980 when I retired.
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| Thoughts on the 58th Bomb Wing: |
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I spent the bulk of my almost four years in the service in the overseas depots in the States, but it was a new experience to be shipped over to the small island of Tinian and help out in a small way in the HQ office. It was also a new experience to be living next to the natives and see how they lived in their way of life.
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| Comments: |
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According to the copy of my Honorable Discharge paper, they have listed the following: Date of departure of overseas 5/30/45 CPTO, arrived 6/8/45; date of departure for overseas 7/21/45 SWPT O, arrived 8/15/45; date of departure for USA 11/15/45 USA, arrived 11/30/45. I completed 8 years of grade school in our local school system and graduated from a four-year high school course in 1935. Then took a short business course for a little over a year at the Minneapolis School of Business in Minneapolis, MN in 1937.
Mr. Gavic passed away January 31, 2006. He is buried at Glenwood City Cemetery in Glenwood City, WI.
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