1920 United States Federal Census (06 January 1920): Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia (sheet 2B, family 36) – Gilbert Loveless (4/12 West Virginia).
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia (sheet 10A, family 204) – Gilbert Loveless (10 West Virginia) and Charles Loveless (8 West Virginia).
1940 United States Federal Census (26 April 1940): Election District 12, Washington County, Maryland (sheet 14B, household 260) – Gilbert L. Loveless (20 West Virginia, laborer, Soil C.C.C. Conservation) and Charles Loveless (19 West Virginia, farm laborer) Their family had lived in rural, Jefferson County, West Virginia in 1935. Both had completed 5th grade.
Gilbert L. Loveless (1919 West Virginia), a resident of Washington County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13001038) in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service on 05 September 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed Grammar School and employed as a driver - "Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor". He was described as 5' 5¾", (67 inches) and 137 lbs.His younger brother, Charles Loveless signed up for the same outfit six days later.
Privates Gilbert Loveless and Charles were assigned to the 7th Chemical Company, Aviation, U.S. Army Air Corps and sent to the Philippine Islands.
The duty of the Chemical Warfare Service in the P.I. was to support units of the Far East Air Force with smoke and chemical warfare material. Their mission was to receive, store, prepare, load, and arm chemical warfare (gas, smoke, and incendiary) munitions for delivery by aircraft. The 7th Chemical Company (Aviation) (CCA) had personnel in several small detachments located at Clark, Iba and Nichols Air Fields. On 08 December 1941 Japan attacked the Philippines. The 7th Chemical Company began the war with 3 officers and 185 soldiers. Within the next few days the Far East Air Force was eliminated as a formidable fighting force. Members of the 7th Chemical Company then trained and fought as infantryman on Bataan with the 31st Infantry Regiment. Eight men in the 7th CCA were killed in action in the fighting leading up to 09 April 1942 when the Luzon force on Bataan was surrendered to the Japanese 14th Army.
After enduring four months of combat, hunger, and illness, 75,000 men the Luzon Force were surrendered on 09 April 1942. That was the day, brothers, Private First Class Gilbert Lee Loveless and Corporal Charles Morten Loveless went missing in action. Their bodies were not recovered. They were officially declared dead on 01 February 1946. Their names are found on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces in the Manila American Cemetery..
The 7th Chemical Company started the war with nearly 190 men. After enduring a terrible ground war, a humiliating surrender, the torturous Bataan Death March, and countless known and unknown atrocities committed by the Japanese on the prisoners, only 62 of the original 7th Chemical Company made it home at the end of the war — a survival rate of about 30 percent.
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia (sheet 10A, family 204) – Gilbert Loveless (10 West Virginia) and Charles Loveless (8 West Virginia).
1940 United States Federal Census (26 April 1940): Election District 12, Washington County, Maryland (sheet 14B, household 260) – Gilbert L. Loveless (20 West Virginia, laborer, Soil C.C.C. Conservation) and Charles Loveless (19 West Virginia, farm laborer) Their family had lived in rural, Jefferson County, West Virginia in 1935. Both had completed 5th grade.
Gilbert L. Loveless (1919 West Virginia), a resident of Washington County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13001038) in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service on 05 September 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed Grammar School and employed as a driver - "Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor". He was described as 5' 5¾", (67 inches) and 137 lbs.His younger brother, Charles Loveless signed up for the same outfit six days later.
Privates Gilbert Loveless and Charles were assigned to the 7th Chemical Company, Aviation, U.S. Army Air Corps and sent to the Philippine Islands.
The duty of the Chemical Warfare Service in the P.I. was to support units of the Far East Air Force with smoke and chemical warfare material. Their mission was to receive, store, prepare, load, and arm chemical warfare (gas, smoke, and incendiary) munitions for delivery by aircraft. The 7th Chemical Company (Aviation) (CCA) had personnel in several small detachments located at Clark, Iba and Nichols Air Fields. On 08 December 1941 Japan attacked the Philippines. The 7th Chemical Company began the war with 3 officers and 185 soldiers. Within the next few days the Far East Air Force was eliminated as a formidable fighting force. Members of the 7th Chemical Company then trained and fought as infantryman on Bataan with the 31st Infantry Regiment. Eight men in the 7th CCA were killed in action in the fighting leading up to 09 April 1942 when the Luzon force on Bataan was surrendered to the Japanese 14th Army.
After enduring four months of combat, hunger, and illness, 75,000 men the Luzon Force were surrendered on 09 April 1942. That was the day, brothers, Private First Class Gilbert Lee Loveless and Corporal Charles Morten Loveless went missing in action. Their bodies were not recovered. They were officially declared dead on 01 February 1946. Their names are found on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces in the Manila American Cemetery..
The 7th Chemical Company started the war with nearly 190 men. After enduring a terrible ground war, a humiliating surrender, the torturous Bataan Death March, and countless known and unknown atrocities committed by the Japanese on the prisoners, only 62 of the original 7th Chemical Company made it home at the end of the war — a survival rate of about 30 percent.
1920 United States Federal Census (06 January 1920): Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia (sheet 2B, family 36) – Gilbert Loveless (4/12 West Virginia).
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia (sheet 10A, family 204) – Gilbert Loveless (10 West Virginia) and Charles Loveless (8 West Virginia).
1940 United States Federal Census (26 April 1940): Election District 12, Washington County, Maryland (sheet 14B, household 260) – Gilbert L. Loveless (20 West Virginia, laborer, Soil C.C.C. Conservation) and Charles Loveless (19 West Virginia, farm laborer) Their family had lived in rural, Jefferson County, West Virginia in 1935. Both had completed 5th grade.
Gilbert L. Loveless (1919 West Virginia), a resident of Washington County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13001038) in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service on 05 September 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed Grammar School and employed as a driver - "Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor". He was described as 5' 5¾", (67 inches) and 137 lbs.His younger brother, Charles Loveless signed up for the same outfit six days later.
Privates Gilbert Loveless and Charles were assigned to the 7th Chemical Company, Aviation, U.S. Army Air Corps and sent to the Philippine Islands.
The duty of the Chemical Warfare Service in the P.I. was to support units of the Far East Air Force with smoke and chemical warfare material. Their mission was to receive, store, prepare, load, and arm chemical warfare (gas, smoke, and incendiary) munitions for delivery by aircraft. The 7th Chemical Company (Aviation) (CCA) had personnel in several small detachments located at Clark, Iba and Nichols Air Fields. On 08 December 1941 Japan attacked the Philippines. The 7th Chemical Company began the war with 3 officers and 185 soldiers. Within the next few days the Far East Air Force was eliminated as a formidable fighting force. Members of the 7th Chemical Company then trained and fought as infantryman on Bataan with the 31st Infantry Regiment. Eight men in the 7th CCA were killed in action in the fighting leading up to 09 April 1942 when the Luzon force on Bataan was surrendered to the Japanese 14th Army.
After enduring four months of combat, hunger, and illness, 75,000 men the Luzon Force were surrendered on 09 April 1942. That was the day, brothers, Private First Class Gilbert Lee Loveless and Corporal Charles Morten Loveless went missing in action. Their bodies were not recovered. They were officially declared dead on 01 February 1946. Their names are found on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces in the Manila American Cemetery..
The 7th Chemical Company started the war with nearly 190 men. After enduring a terrible ground war, a humiliating surrender, the torturous Bataan Death March, and countless known and unknown atrocities committed by the Japanese on the prisoners, only 62 of the original 7th Chemical Company made it home at the end of the war — a survival rate of about 30 percent.
1930 United States Federal Census (12 April 1930): Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia (sheet 10A, family 204) – Gilbert Loveless (10 West Virginia) and Charles Loveless (8 West Virginia).
1940 United States Federal Census (26 April 1940): Election District 12, Washington County, Maryland (sheet 14B, household 260) – Gilbert L. Loveless (20 West Virginia, laborer, Soil C.C.C. Conservation) and Charles Loveless (19 West Virginia, farm laborer) Their family had lived in rural, Jefferson County, West Virginia in 1935. Both had completed 5th grade.
Gilbert L. Loveless (1919 West Virginia), a resident of Washington County, Maryland, enlisted as a Private (S/N 13001038) in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service on 05 September 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was single, had completed Grammar School and employed as a driver - "Semiskilled chauffeurs and drivers, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor". He was described as 5' 5¾", (67 inches) and 137 lbs.His younger brother, Charles Loveless signed up for the same outfit six days later.
Privates Gilbert Loveless and Charles were assigned to the 7th Chemical Company, Aviation, U.S. Army Air Corps and sent to the Philippine Islands.
The duty of the Chemical Warfare Service in the P.I. was to support units of the Far East Air Force with smoke and chemical warfare material. Their mission was to receive, store, prepare, load, and arm chemical warfare (gas, smoke, and incendiary) munitions for delivery by aircraft. The 7th Chemical Company (Aviation) (CCA) had personnel in several small detachments located at Clark, Iba and Nichols Air Fields. On 08 December 1941 Japan attacked the Philippines. The 7th Chemical Company began the war with 3 officers and 185 soldiers. Within the next few days the Far East Air Force was eliminated as a formidable fighting force. Members of the 7th Chemical Company then trained and fought as infantryman on Bataan with the 31st Infantry Regiment. Eight men in the 7th CCA were killed in action in the fighting leading up to 09 April 1942 when the Luzon force on Bataan was surrendered to the Japanese 14th Army.
After enduring four months of combat, hunger, and illness, 75,000 men the Luzon Force were surrendered on 09 April 1942. That was the day, brothers, Private First Class Gilbert Lee Loveless and Corporal Charles Morten Loveless went missing in action. Their bodies were not recovered. They were officially declared dead on 01 February 1946. Their names are found on the Tablets of the Missing - United States Army and Army Air Forces in the Manila American Cemetery..
The 7th Chemical Company started the war with nearly 190 men. After enduring a terrible ground war, a humiliating surrender, the torturous Bataan Death March, and countless known and unknown atrocities committed by the Japanese on the prisoners, only 62 of the original 7th Chemical Company made it home at the end of the war — a survival rate of about 30 percent.
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