Montana Cowboy Recalls Okinawa
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Montana Cowboy Survived Battle of Okinawa
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97-year-old Durl Gibbs of Fort Benton, MT appears on episode #776 of Hometown Heroes, airing March 11-16, 2023. Rounding up cows on horseback from the age of 5, Gibbs is a lifelong cowboy, having grown up in Idaho and Utah before World War II, and becoming a Montana cattle rancher after the war.
Durl Gibbs with a memento he brought home from Okinawa after World War II. For more photos, visit the Hometown Heroes facebook page.
Gibbs survived the Battle of Okinawa with I Company, 381st Regiment, 96th Infantry Division, and you’ll hear him take us back to three of his closest calls in combat.
This is wonderful – Durl is my mothers cousins – thank you for this story’. And reminding is a freedom is not free
This is wonderful – Durl is my mothers cousins – thank you for this story’. And reminding is a freedom is not free
Durl thank you for sharing. My mother is Barbara Barnard Robbins, George and Modenia Barnard are my grandparents. I have heard that amazing wallet story from my dad, Leo who is 92.