Mrs. Catherine C.Gabreskie
He met his future wife, Miss Catherine "Kay" Cochran, in Hawaii and became engaged shortly after the horrific Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Francis and Kay Gabreski had nine children in 48 years of marriage. Two of their three sons graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and became career Air Force pilots.
His daughter-in-law Terry L. Gabreski was promoted to lieutenant general in August 2005, the highest-ranking woman in the USAF until her retirement in 2010.
Catherine died as the result of an automobile accident as they both were returning from the Oshkosh Air Show on August 6, 1993. She was interred in Calverton National Cemetery, 25 miles from their home in Dix Hills, NY.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
He met his future wife, Miss Catherine "Kay" Cochran, in Hawaii and became engaged shortly after the horrific Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Francis and Kay Gabreski had nine children in 48 years of marriage. Two of their three sons graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and became career Air Force pilots.
His daughter-in-law Terry L. Gabreski was promoted to lieutenant general in August 2005, the highest-ranking woman in the USAF until her retirement in 2010.
Catherine died as the result of an automobile accident as they both were returning from the Oshkosh Air Show on August 6, 1993. She was interred in Calverton National Cemetery, 25 miles from their home in Dix Hills, NY.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
Mrs. Catherine C.Gabreskie
He met his future wife, Miss Catherine "Kay" Cochran, in Hawaii and became engaged shortly after the horrific Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Francis and Kay Gabreski had nine children in 48 years of marriage. Two of their three sons graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and became career Air Force pilots.
His daughter-in-law Terry L. Gabreski was promoted to lieutenant general in August 2005, the highest-ranking woman in the USAF until her retirement in 2010.
Catherine died as the result of an automobile accident as they both were returning from the Oshkosh Air Show on August 6, 1993. She was interred in Calverton National Cemetery, 25 miles from their home in Dix Hills, NY.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
He met his future wife, Miss Catherine "Kay" Cochran, in Hawaii and became engaged shortly after the horrific Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Francis and Kay Gabreski had nine children in 48 years of marriage. Two of their three sons graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and became career Air Force pilots.
His daughter-in-law Terry L. Gabreski was promoted to lieutenant general in August 2005, the highest-ranking woman in the USAF until her retirement in 2010.
Catherine died as the result of an automobile accident as they both were returning from the Oshkosh Air Show on August 6, 1993. She was interred in Calverton National Cemetery, 25 miles from their home in Dix Hills, NY.
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
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