. . Jerry Gzesh Jacob “Jerry” Gzesh of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania served a short hitch in the army just after WWII. Afterwards, in his first semester at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), the army called him up to active duty and sent him to Korea in 1950. “What was I
. . Dick Guenther Dick Guenther entered the US Army in February 1943. He was an infantryman in the 3rd Army and fought in Northern France. He landed on Utah Beach, Normandy on July 1 as a replacement. Before leaving the Army, he received the Purple Heart among other medals.
. . Nick Gozik As a young soldier in Europe during WWII, Nick Gozik of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stood witness as Pvt. Eddie Slovik was executed by firing squad for desertion—the first US service member put to death under that charge since the Civil War. On November 19, 2011, Nick shared
. . Warren Goss Warren G. Goss entered the US Army in 1943 where he served as a rifleman fighting in Europe and participating in the Normandy invasion. Mr. Goss was a member of the 531st Special Brigade, which was one of the earliest units to land at Utah Beach. In
. . Gerald Goslak Gerald Goslak joined the Army at the old age of 22 and was promptly sent with his armored unit to a Cold War post near Munich, Germany. While there, he stood guard duty at an Army stockade which was once Dachau, the notorious death camp used
. . Clarence "Code" Gomberg Clarence “Code” Gomberg served with the 343rd Medical Battalion during World War II. He experience the war aboard a hospital train that traveled through France, the Netherlands and Belgium, picking up the wounded and returning them to French ports where they would be shipped to
