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Hi, taken from a soldiers writings on D-Day mention Everett.
"...D-DAY as I remember it..." !
I Company (CO > Captain Harold H. SWINGLER, later KIA on D-Day) paratroopers got the command to “GO” and before they knew it they were in the air with open chutes ! It wasn’t a long descent, and I could see enemy tracers coming up at a low angle toward us, and hear the gunfire too . I then hit the ground with a severe jolt in a little field on the outskirts of Ste-Mère-Eglise, the rest of our jump stick had just missed the downtown center to land not far from the cemetery … I was trying to reassemble my M-1 rifle and get out as fast as I could out of my chute, when I saw someone running toward me, I yelled the password, ready to fire, but it luckily turned out to be a member of I Co / 505th PIR (Pvt Everett W. Gilliland, KIA in Holland, Sep 18, 1944) . It was hard to pinpoint the gunfire, which seemed all around, but the most awesome sight were the C-47s continuously flying overhead at a very low altitude after dropping their loads . Only 3 or 4 of us got together, but we managed to assemble . Sgt J. Robinson took charge, and we meanwhile kept crisscrossing and going away from town to pick up more of our guys and equipment bundles . Sgt. Robinson disappeared somewhere, but by then, we had pretty much of the Company together … (Mission “BOSTON”, 3d Bn / 505th Prcht Inf Regt + 2 Secs 456th Prcht Fld Arty, departed Cottesmore, England, at 0157, bound for DZ “O”).
kind regards, Lorraine in sunny Mackay Qld
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Elaine - the US Special Forces Roll of Honour has him killed in action - 18th September 1944 - this unit were attached to the 82nd Airborne (this might be where the memory of his being an airman came from?)
Surname Gilliland
Forename Everett W.
Unit 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company I)
Rank Private
Number 17057174
Date of death 18th September 1944
Age 21
Gravesite buried Kansas
Additional information from Reno County,Kansas
entered service 12.4.1942 Fort Leavenworth,Kansas
KIA Groesbeek,Holland
http://www.specialforcesroh.com/roll-20397.html
This is another site that gives a lot of info about his unit - but no obvious mention of Virginia at all
http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/505/505.html
Cheers
Sue
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Think you should get the marriage cert. to confirm his age and father though.
Rose
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Lee Boyd Gilliland
SPRING, Texas - Lee Boyd Gilliland, 79, of Spring, Texas, passed away May 22, 2006.
After joining the U.S. Navy at 16, he served our country proudly during World War II.
In 1948, he married Stella Franz and together had three children. Later in 1976, he met and married Naoual Yacoubi and went on to have a 45- year career as an international representative for Boeing.
Preceding him in death were parents, Reuben and Mabel Gilliland, Hutchinson; sisters, Netty Gilliland and Loretta Thompson; and brothers, Everett, Wilbur and Donal Gilliland.
He leaves behind a loving and devoted family including wife: Naoual Gilliland of 30 years and children: Irl and wife, Aileen Gilliland, Darrel and wife, Kris Gilliland, and Diana and husband, Jeffery Miller; six grandchildren: David, Amy, Erica and Megan Gilliland and Amanda and Moriah Miller, brothers: Gerald "Dutch" and wife, Donna Gilliland, Bill and wife, Diane Gilliland, Glenn "Butch" and wife, Mona Gilliland, Hutchinson, and sisters: DeEtta Davis, Hutchinson, and Shirley Keel.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 25, 2006, in the Chapel of Forest Park The Woodlands Funeral Home and Cemetery, Conroe, Texas.
Memorials may be sent to Christian Heritage Academy, 722 I Street, Central City, NE 68826.
05/26/2006; 02:28:19 AM
Rose
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This is great. Gives you all his family and where they lived in 2004.
United States Obituary Collection
Donal G. Gilliland
Donal G. Gilliland, 64, died May 11, 2004, at Hutchinson Hospital.
He was born March 23, 1940, at Hutchinson, the son of Ruben Everett and Mabel Ruby Spangler Gilliland. A Hutchinson resident since 1996, formerly of Kinston, N.C., he was a retired supervisor at Smithfield Packing, Kinston, and also worked at Winchester Packing, Hutchinson, until it closed in 1984.
He was a member of Masonic Lodge.
On Jan. 31, 1959, he married Patricia Moore at Hutchinson. In 1984, they divorced. She died in 1998. He married Shiela Bridges in 1992. They divorced in 1996. She died in 2002.
Survivors include: a son, Dennis Gilliland, Hutchinson; a daughter, Chantel Dick and her husband, Jake, Hutchinson; a stepson, Lee Ball, Ayden, N.C.; a stepdaughter, Lesha McLawhorn, Snow Hill, N.C.; four brothers, Butch, Hutchinson, Dutch, Branson, Mo., Lee and Bill Gilliland, Spring, Texas; two sisters, Shirley Keel, Brownwood, Texas, and DeEtta Davis, Hutchinson; three grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and three step-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Wilbur and Everett Gilliland; a sister, Loretta Jean Thompson; and a grandchild, Bobby Dean Dick.
Graveside service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Fairlawn Burial Park. Visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, at Heritage Funeral Home, Hutchinson.
Memorials may be sent to the American Lung Association or to the American Heart Association, both in care of the funeral home.
Rose
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Here they are:
1930 United States Federal Census
about Evert Galhland
Name: Evert Galhland
Home in 1930: South Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas
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Age: 6
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1924
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Rueben
Mother's Name: Mabel
Race: White
Occupation:
Education:
Military service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace: View image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Rueben Galhland 30
Mabel Galhland 24
Evert Galhland 6
Le Boyd Galhland 3
Detta Galhland 1
Rose
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This is on OneWorldTree on Ancestry:
Evert William Gilliland
Born: 12 Dec 1923
Died: 25 Sep 1944
Lists parents as Reuben and Mabel but I'm unable to find them in 1930.
Rose
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Sure he was from Virginia and an airman?
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
about Everett W Gilliland
Name: Everett W Gilliland
Birth Year: 1923
Race: White, citizen (White)
State of Residence: Kansas
County or City: Reno
Enlistment Date: 14 Apr 1942
Enlistment State: Kansas
Enlistment City: Fort Levenworth
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of
Source: Civil Life
Education: 1 year of high school
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 63
Weight: 130
Rose
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Do you have the marriage cert?
England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005
about Everett W Gilliland
Name: Everett W Gilliland
Spouse Surname: Swift
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1944
Registration district: Leicester
Registration county (inferred): Leicestershire
Volume Number: 7a
Page Number: 633
Find Spouse: Find Spouse
Rose
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How can I find out about an american airmen killed in 1945.
I know very little except his name - Everett Gilliland - and that he was from Virginia - he was my late half sister's father
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