Missing In Action  Daughter united with her father after 55 Years

2ndLT George Gaffney
George P. Gaffney, Jr,

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George Philip Gaffney Jr.
Grave at Arlington Cemetary

 


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Dec 7, 1941

  Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

Mar 1942

  George P. Gaffney Jr. enlists in USAAF

Aug 13, 1943

  Gaffney and Ruth Christenson marry

Dec 24, 1943

  Gaffney arrives in New Guinea.

Dec 7, 1941

  Stationed at Nadzab Airfield

 

  Hospitalized in Australia with Malaria

 

  Stationed at Gusap Airfield

Mar 11 1944

  Mission to Wewak

Mar 25, 1944

  Ruth Gaffney is told her husband is MIA

June 22, 1944

  Patricia Gaffney is born.

 

Sep. 1993

  Patricia Gaffney learns of Janice Olson

May 1995

  Travel to New Guinea: Olson & Gaffney

Nov 1997

New wreck in Mountains

June 26, 1998

  A P-47 located by Hagen.

October 1998

  Army recovery team confirms its Gaffney

Jan 1999

Military forensic experts identify remains. Gaffneys, await independent confirmation.

March 11, 1999

  Army Board of Officers confirms the findings.

June 5, 1999

  Funeral service Madison, WI

June 9, 1999

  Buried Arlington Cemetery

 

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