Johnson County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Gilbert, Cecil Asbury 
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Katherine Adwell Amon amon_katherine@yahoo.com October 31, 2008, 12:13 pm

Cemetery:           Grandview Cemetery
Name:               Cecil Asbury Gilbert

Date Of Photograph: 2007
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           CECIL A.
           GILBERT
            TEXAS 
          Staff SGT
       754 AAF BOMB SQ
         WORLD WAR II
       DECEMBER 14,1923
         JULY 7, 1944
  To live in hearts we leave 
     behind is not to die.    
 


Additional Comments:
My Hero
All the men and women that serve in our military are heros in my book. But my 
Uncle Cecil is my personal hero. Cecil Asbury Gilbert was born December 14, 
1923 in Dennison, Texas to William Asbury and Annie Violet Hartis Gilbert. He 
was the eighth of thirteen children and grew up learning to cook, iron, clean 
house and respect his elders. 

Cecil graduated from Grandview high school May 22, 1942. He then joined the 
Army Air Force and found himself in the middle of WWII. He was a gunner aboard 
a B52 in the 754 AAF BOMB SQ. On his fifteenth mission he was shot down.

I was born on his twenty-first birthday in 1944. Unfortunately he was killed 
on the seventh of July before I was born on December 14. He was shot down over 
Lutzkendorf, Germany and buried in the garrison there. He was finally brought 
home in 1949. I remember his funeral with the draped flag and the twenty-one 
gun salute. I wish I could have known this brave young man that was my uncle.


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