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Gill, Warren Calavan, LCDR USCG(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Lebanon
Last Address Lebanon, Oregon
Date of Passing Oct 08, 1987
Location of Interment IOOF Cemetery - Lebanon, Oregon
Wall/Plot Coordinates plot Friendship row 20 lot 52 grave 2
practing law before WW2 & after was elected to State House & State Senate in OREGON
was selected as Veteran of the year OREGON 1981
Other Comments:
HAD B.A.degree & J.D. law degree from Univ. of Oregon
with BAR passed in OREGON & in NEW YORK working fulltime
also Merchant Seaman Papers out of SF, CA & Seattle, WA
World War II/European-African-Middle Eastern Theater/Tunisia Campaign (1942-43)
From Month/Year
August / 1939
To Month/Year
September / 1945
Description (Tunisia Campaign 17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943) Having gained Algeria, the Allies quickly turned eastward, hoping to take Tunis and Bizerte before the Germans could send reinforcements into Tunisia. But the drive broke down short of the goal. In February 1943, after Rommel had been driven into Tunisia, the Axis took the offensive and pushed through Kasserine Pass before being stopped. With Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces in the battle, the Allies drove the enemy back into a pocket around Bizerte and Tunis, where Axis forces surrendered in May. Thus Tunisia became available for launching an attack on Sicily as a preliminary to an assault on Italy.