Veterans' Memorial Project
Gilbert Andrew Rapp
Morton, IL
World War II
Lt. (jg) Rapp served with the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was a naval pilot when the plane on which he was aboard failed to return to Dunkeswell, England, from an anti-submarine patrol in the Bay of Biscay. He is listed as Missing in Action or Buried at Sea on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and Purple Heart.
-taken from Illinois Alumni News, September, 1945, and Web site above
Further information: https://www.abmc.gov
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