World War II Honoree

Gayle E. Gilbert

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Mott, North Dakota

Honored By

Gaylene A. Etnier

Relationship

Daughter

Normandy Invasion. Was shot in his ankle somewhere in France. He remembered laying on a cot in an old farm house, when the Germans came in and shot all the other Americans. When they came to him, one of the German officers said, 'No, he's going to die anyway.' He spent 3 years in an Army hospital in the U.S. recovering. He would not let them amputate. He lived a rich full life and walked with a limp, but did everything anyone else could.