- SURNAME
Gibb
- FORENAME
Glenn Marvin
- UNIT
1 Marine Parachute Regiment (Company C)
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
816961
- DATE OF DEATH
1st January 1944
- AGE
19
- GRAVESITE
Manila American Cemetery, Philippines Tablets of the Missing
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Twin Falls, Idaho
born 03.05.1924 Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
father John Samuel Gibb
mother Mabel (nee Jensen) Gibb
1942 graduated Twin Falls High School
attended University of Idaho
employed by Twin Fall City Municipal Swimming Pool
30.06.1942 draft card Twin Falls, Idaho
30.01.1943 entered service Salt Lake City, Utah
KIA Bougainville, Solomon Islands
Remains not recovered
DATE OF DEATH:
01-Jan-1944WEB LINKS:
https://missingmarines.com/glenn-m-gibb/FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56782519/glenn-marvin-gibbSERVICE HISTORY:
GIBB, Glenn M., PFC 745 SN: 816961
Born: 03 May 1924 Twin Falls, Idaho
Enlisted: 30 Jan 1943 DHS Salt Lake City, Utah (Home of Record: 443 Walnut Street, Twin Falls, Idaho)
Died: 01 Jan 1944 (KIA, Bougainville, Solomon Islands)
Interred: Unrecoverable. His name is inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Philippine Islands
Company B, Parachute Training School, Camp Gillespie, San Diego, CA
Apr 1943 Pvt, Co B, ParaTrngSch, Camp Gillespie, San Diego, CA “5, design stud para; 5-30, stud para.”
Parachute Replacement Company, Schools Battalion, Training Center, Camp Elliott, San Diego, CA
Jul 1943 PFC, ParaReplCo, SBn, TrngCtr, Camp Elliott, San Diego, CA “Para”
28th Replacement Battalion, FMF
Oct 1943 PFC, 28thReplBn, FMF “1-3, at sea; 4, arr and disemb at Noumea, New Caledonia; 6, to 1st MarParaRegt, 1st MAC”
1st Parachute Battalion, 1st Marine Parachute Regiment, 1st Marine Amphibious Corps
Oct 1943 PFC; C Co, 1stParaBn, 1stMarParaRegt, 1stMAC “Para; 11, jdfr 28thReplBn, 1st MAC; 18, emb aboard LST 472 at Guadalcanal, B.S.I. and sailed therefrom; 20, arr & disemb at Vella Lavella, B.S.I”
Jan 1944 PFC; C Co, 1stParaBn, 1stMarParaRegt, 1stMAC ”1, KIA, by GSW forehead; remains not recovered for interment. Killed in the vicinity of coordinates 134.22-210-11; IMAC Hasty Terrain Map, sheet #180, 2nd Edition-1943
Born: 03 May 1924 Twin Falls, Idaho
Enlisted: 30 Jan 1943 DHS Salt Lake City, Utah (Home of Record: 443 Walnut Street, Twin Falls, Idaho)
Died: 01 Jan 1944 (KIA, Bougainville, Solomon Islands)
Interred: Unrecoverable. His name is inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Philippine Islands
Company B, Parachute Training School, Camp Gillespie, San Diego, CA
Apr 1943 Pvt, Co B, ParaTrngSch, Camp Gillespie, San Diego, CA “5, design stud para; 5-30, stud para.”
Parachute Replacement Company, Schools Battalion, Training Center, Camp Elliott, San Diego, CA
Jul 1943 PFC, ParaReplCo, SBn, TrngCtr, Camp Elliott, San Diego, CA “Para”
28th Replacement Battalion, FMF
Oct 1943 PFC, 28thReplBn, FMF “1-3, at sea; 4, arr and disemb at Noumea, New Caledonia; 6, to 1st MarParaRegt, 1st MAC”
1st Parachute Battalion, 1st Marine Parachute Regiment, 1st Marine Amphibious Corps
Oct 1943 PFC; C Co, 1stParaBn, 1stMarParaRegt, 1stMAC “Para; 11, jdfr 28thReplBn, 1st MAC; 18, emb aboard LST 472 at Guadalcanal, B.S.I. and sailed therefrom; 20, arr & disemb at Vella Lavella, B.S.I”
Jan 1944 PFC; C Co, 1stParaBn, 1stMarParaRegt, 1stMAC ”1, KIA, by GSW forehead; remains not recovered for interment. Killed in the vicinity of coordinates 134.22-210-11; IMAC Hasty Terrain Map, sheet #180, 2nd Edition-1943
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