William C. Gribble Jr. (born May 24, 1917 in
Ironwood, Michigan
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– June 2, 1979) graduated from the
United States Military Academy
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in 1941 and was commissioned in the
Corps of Engineers.
During
World War II
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, he served on the staff of the 340th Engineer General Service Regiment as it first built a section of the