Gilbert Walter Higginbotham

May 14, 1942

Flagler County has 74 men in the various branches of the armed forces at this time ..... the list up to date is as follows: GILBERT WALTER HIGGINBOTHAM

January 7, 1943

Sgt. GILBERT HIGGINBOTHAM was married to Ann Jean Lewis on December 6, 1942 at Enid Army Flying School where he is stationed. Mrs. Higginbotham, is a member of the WACC's and is stationed at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

November 4, 1943

Sgt. and Mrs. GILBERT HIGGINBOTHAM and Pvt. Harold Higginbotham are here this week, having been called to Bunnell by the sudden death of their mother last Tuesday.

January 11, 1945

Clifford Higginbotham, young brother of GILBERT, Harold and Jack HIGGINBOTHAM all of whom are in the army at widely separated places of the world, told us this week that Gilbert has been sent out from Pearl Harbor to "somewhere else in the Pacific" and is a "gunner on a Liberator bomber and has completed 3 missions on his new assignment." His brother Harold is in France and his other brother, Jack, is somewhere in the India-Burma-China theater.

February 15, 1945

Sgt. GILBERT HIGGINBOTHAM is in Australia for a rest period, after completing 16 bombing missions in the Pacific, his brother, Clifford, tells us. Gilbert was at one time on Pelileu.

November 1, 1945

S/Sgt. GILBERT HIGGINBOTHAM who has spent many months in the Pacific theater with the army air corps, is here visiting friends and relatives.