Blair County PA Archives Obituaries.....Dick, George May 22, 1944
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Altoona Mirror    6/13/1944
George Dick  6/13/1944   Altoona Mirror

A letter from the war department has followed a telegram received by Mr. and 
Mrs. W. J. B. Claar of Claysburg. R. D., informing them of the death in the 
south Pacific of their nephew, S/Sgt. George Dick, who was Killed in action on 
May 22, confirming the information contained in the telegram.  Sgt. Dick was in 
the air corps, where he was rated as expert turret gunner. He entered the 
service in June, 1942, and took his training at Keesler field, Miss.; Salt Lake
City, Ut.; Laurel, Miss.; Alexandria, La.; Abilene, Tex.; Florence, S. C.; 
Colorado Springs, Colo.; Tampa,Fla.; and Oklahoma City, Okla.  He left for the 
south Pacific from Oakland, Calif., on Jan. 13, 1944, landed at Hawaii from 
where he sent a letter home and in a few days another letter came from 
Australia.  The last letter received was written in the south Pacific and was 
dated May 16, just six days before he was reported killed.  Before entering the 
service, he spent eighteen months in the Bear Valley CCC camp near Upper
Strausburg.  On Nov. 9, 1942, he was graduated as an aerial gunner at the Las 
Vegas aerial gunnery school and on Dec. 12, 1942, he was an honor student in 
the graduating class of the 2nd air force training school at Salt Lake City, 
finishing his course as one of the top four in the graduating class.  S/Sgt. 
Dick was a son of Frank and Matilda Claar Dick. His parents are both deceased 
and he spent the last years of his home life in the home of his uncle and aunt 
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. B. Claar of Claysburg, R. D.  Surviving are a son, Zane 
Edward Dick, aged 3 years, by a former marriage, residing at Imler, and
two brothers, Charles O. Dick of Claysburg, R. D., and Frank Dick, with the 
United States air corps, who is at present on furlough, which he is spending at 
the Claar home; and two sisters, Hattie, wife of Warren Medasia of Claysburg, 
R. D., and Grace, wife of Frank McCauslin, residing in Ohio.

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