SGT. GARMAN HOME ON TEN DAYS FURLOUGH
Sgt. Paul Garman gave his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Garman, a pleasant surprise when he walked in the house Monday noon to spend a 10 day furlough. He came from an air base at Salt Lake City, Utah, where he had gone Oct. 5, having graduated from a gunnery course at Tyndall Field. He hadn't been home on furlough for more than a year.
Cpl. Lou Garman is at Fort Benning, Ga.
Source: The Algona Upper Des Moines, October 21, 1943
WESLEY AIRMAN KILLED IN ACTION OVER RHINELAND
Tech.-Sgt. Paul Garman, in 8th Army Air Forces, Had Been Reported Missing Since September 11th.
Wesley: A memorial requiem mass was said Tuesday morning in St. Joseph’s Catholic church by Rev. L. N. Klein for Tech. Sgt. Paul Garman, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. August Garman, killed in action over Germany Sept. 11. The Garman family received word Sept. 25 that Paul was missing in action. Saturday they received official notice of his death.
Entered Service in 1942
Paul was born Feb. 2, 1918, on the farm where the family now lives. He attended St. Joseph’s parochial school and graduated from Wesley High in 1935. He entered service in the army May 1, 1942. Jan. 1, 1943 he transferred to the army air corps and trained at camps in Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida and Utah, going overseas in June, 1944. He was attached to the 8th Army Air Force and was first engineer.
Honorary pallbearers were service man of World War iI, Alvin Loebig, Walter West, Paul Schrauth, Lawrence Youngwirth, Albert Lickteig and Leroy Ricke. Members of the United Service Women attended in a body.
Four Sisters, Brothers Survive
Paul is survived by his parents, four sisters and four brothers: Sister Gratian (Ruth) of Mt. Carmel, Dubuque; Mrs. (Lorraine) Philip Goetz of Wesley; Mrs. (Margaret) Lewis Schaller of Britt; Ed of Wesley, Cpl. Lou Garman, somewhere in Germany, Tom, John and Rita at home, and his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Laux of Wesley.
Relatives attended the mass from Blue Earth, Minn., Whittemore, Algona, St. Benedict, and Mason City.
Paul was awarded the air medal in September for a mission made Aug. 14.
Source: Unknown newspaper submitted by Jerry Yocum, Historian, Camp Algona POW Museum, Algona, IA (group photo included)
T-Sgt. Paul Garman, Wesley, Reported Missing In Action
Wesley: Mr. and Mrs. August Garman received official word last week that their son, Tech. Sgt. Paul Garman is missing in action over Germany since Sept. 11. Paul had received this rating about Sept. 1 and also an air medal which he sent home. It was for meritorious achievement while participating in sustained bomber combat operating over Germany and German occupied countries. He had been a bombardier and on his last mission he was first engineer.
Cpl. Lou Garman, another son, is in a tank battalion and is in England.
Source: The Algona Upper Des Moines, October 3, 1944
CITED POSTHUMOUSLY -- Mr. and Mrs. August Garman of Wesley received a letter together with the purple heart awarded posthumously to their son, T/Sgt. Paul Garman, 26, of the air corps, who gave his life in the defense of his country. His death occurred Sept. 11. Paul was engineer and a gunner on a B-17.
Source: The Mason City Globe-Gazette, February 21, 1945
80 Kossuth Men Officially Listed As Casualties In War
FIRST RELEASE OF STATE HISTORICAL DEATH SUMMARIES
Eighty men from Kossuth county lost their lives while in the service of their country in World War II.
KOSSUTH'S WAR DEAD.
Garman, Paul, T.Sgt.
Killed in action over Germany 9-11-44.
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. August J. Garman, Rt. 1, Wesley, Ia.
Source: The Algona Upper DesMoines, Tuesday, January 22, 1946 – page 7.
Paul James Garman was born Feb. 2, 1918 to August Jacob and May Margaret Laux Garman. He died Sept. 11, 1944 and is buried in Netherlands American Cemetery and memorialized in Saint Joseph Cemetery, Wesley, IA. He was awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and Purple Heart.
Sgt. Garman is buried in Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.
Source: ancestry.com; fieldsofhonordatabase
