Marvin Eugene Gray

Staff Sergeant
Army Air Force

Born:
Died: March. 9, 1945

Killed in a midair collision while on a mission over Philippine Islands Mar. 9, 1945

Before his death he completed 43 missions as an armored gunner in the 13th
Air Force and participated in air action over the Himalayas, Borneo, Celebes, Luzon
and the Philippines.

He was awarded the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart.
His wife, Doris Geheris Gray, and two-year-old daughter, Diana Lynn, live in
Costa Mesa, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Gray, in Santa Ana.

A graduate of Tustin Union high school in 1940, he entered Army Air Forces service May 24, 1943. He received training at Fresno and in Colorado, Florida and South Carolina before departing in June, 1944, for South Pacific duty





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