AUGUST PETER MARKS,
JR b Mar 14, 1924 Detroit d May 31, 1945
Died Non Battle
Lake Lucerne,
Victorville, California
2nd Lt
2064979 Army Air Corp March Field, CA
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| Gus 1936 |
Buried Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit
Parents: August P. & Adelle
Sibling: Anna
His parents were both born in Lithuania/Russia, but
spoke Polish, immigrating about 1912/3. They came from another area of evolving
countries. Their name originally was Markewicz, but it was changed in 1939 to
Marks. In 1930 Father August was a machinist in an auto factory but in WWII he
served at Camp Custer in Battle Creek in the Quartermaster Corps Training
School for Teamsters.
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| Gus with Anna |
Young Gus graduated from Redford in 1942 and June
of that year registered for the draft in Detroit. Tall at 6’1”, 175 lbs with
brown eyes and black hair. He served as an Aviation Cadet at the Pampa Air
Field in Pampa, Texas.He had some striking photos taken of himself.
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| Gus with Girlfriend |
In June 1944 he was honorably discharged to accept
the commission of 2nd Lt at March Field, Riverside, CA as a training
pilot. He was in a B-25 Mitchell Bomber on a training flight over bombing
ranges north of the San Bernardino Mountains when the plane crashed and he was
killed.
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