U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #11013328
Enlistment Date: 09/23/1940
U.S. Army Air Corp
Gideon B. Abbott is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for York County, Maine.
∼Gideon served as a Private, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in York County, Maine prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on September 23, 1940, prior to the war, in Portland, Maine. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a mechanic and also as Single, without dependents.
Gideon "Died While A POW" of the Japanese Army at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines during the war and was awarded the Prisoner Of War Medal and the Purple Heart.
Service # 11013328
He is interred somewhere in Maine.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
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The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
Enlistment Date: 09/23/1940
U.S. Army Air Corp
Gideon B. Abbott is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for York County, Maine.
∼Gideon served as a Private, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in York County, Maine prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on September 23, 1940, prior to the war, in Portland, Maine. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a mechanic and also as Single, without dependents.
Gideon "Died While A POW" of the Japanese Army at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines during the war and was awarded the Prisoner Of War Medal and the Purple Heart.
Service # 11013328
He is interred somewhere in Maine.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
*******************************************************
The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #11013328
Enlistment Date: 09/23/1940
U.S. Army Air Corp
Gideon B. Abbott is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for York County, Maine.
∼Gideon served as a Private, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in York County, Maine prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on September 23, 1940, prior to the war, in Portland, Maine. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a mechanic and also as Single, without dependents.
Gideon "Died While A POW" of the Japanese Army at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines during the war and was awarded the Prisoner Of War Medal and the Purple Heart.
Service # 11013328
He is interred somewhere in Maine.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
*******************************************************
The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
Enlistment Date: 09/23/1940
U.S. Army Air Corp
Gideon B. Abbott is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for York County, Maine.
∼Gideon served as a Private, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in York County, Maine prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on September 23, 1940, prior to the war, in Portland, Maine. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a mechanic and also as Single, without dependents.
Gideon "Died While A POW" of the Japanese Army at POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Province, Luzon, Philippines during the war and was awarded the Prisoner Of War Medal and the Purple Heart.
Service # 11013328
He is interred somewhere in Maine.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
*******************************************************
The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
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