Cpl Preston L. Kaspervik,
Service ID: 6958436.
Entered the service from Illinois.
Cpl Preston L. Kaspervik, was a radio operator in the 18th Airways and Communication Service Squadron and died of hepatitis on January 4, 1944.
1st Lt Kaspervik's death was just the first his mother had to face. In his 1989 Memorial Day speech at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Pres. George Bush spoke about brothers Donald, Preston, and William Kaspervik, all of whom joined the Air Corps and died in service to their country. While Donald is buried in their hometown of Quincy, Illinois, William and Preston are buried side by side in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. They died ten days apart in January 1944. As Pres. Bush put it, they are "buried here in soil that they helped free. Brothers in life, brothers in arms, brothers in eternity."
Cpl Preston L. Kaspervik,
Service ID: 6958436.
Entered the service from Illinois.
Cpl Preston L. Kaspervik, was a radio operator in the 18th Airways and Communication Service Squadron and died of hepatitis on January 4, 1944.
1st Lt Kaspervik's death was just the first his mother had to face. In his 1989 Memorial Day speech at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Pres. George Bush spoke about brothers Donald, Preston, and William Kaspervik, all of whom joined the Air Corps and died in service to their country. While Donald is buried in their hometown of Quincy, Illinois, William and Preston are buried side by side in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. They died ten days apart in January 1944. As Pres. Bush put it, they are "buried here in soil that they helped free. Brothers in life, brothers in arms, brothers in eternity."
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