DUVAL

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Personal Details

  • Last Name: DUVAL
  • First Name Middle Initial: GERALD
  • Nick Name: 'JERRY'
  • Street:  10510 Front Beach Road
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  • City:
  • State:  PANAMA CITY BEACH, FL
  • Postal Code: 32407
  • Phone: 1-850-234-6762
  • E-Mail:  xra1@bellsouth.net
  • Spouse: THELMA J.
  • Age when entered service:
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  • War or Conflict: WW II
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  • Branch of Service/s: Army Air Corp
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  • Highest Rank: new_value
  • Military MOS (Job Descriptions): RADIO OPERATOR AND GUNNER
  • What military medals received: PURPLE HEART MEDAL, Air Medal PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION and PRISONER OF WAR MEDAL OF VALOR AND OTHERS.
Military Bio:

My book Wings and Barbed Wire by Gerald Duval can be found at its Home site... www.1stbooks.com It is in both EBOOK format and in print. It can also be found on www.amazon.com....www.barnesandnoble.com...www.walmart.com...amd on many overseas book seller websites. Most bookseller websites and stores have it.

My Message to Future Generations: God Bless America and our Service People in Harms Way. Take up the Sword we have passed on to you!

Post Military Occupation

  • Age when captured: 20
  • Date of Captured: 04/02/44
  • Place captured: AUSTRIA
  • Camp/s held: LUFT 1 AND LABOR CAMPS laid in the first labor camp without medical aid ..except for a limp body cast. No Red Cross.. food or medicine were supplied. The Camp was near a Battery of Flak Guns. This was not in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
  • Date Released:
  • Prisoner-of-war status: Liberated
  • Date of DEATH if deceased: 
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  • Died from complications of combat wounds:
  • Describe below Survivors Include: