Gilbert B. Chambers Full Narrative

Gilbert Bonn Chambers was born on May 23, 1918 in Yakima, Washington to George and Florine Bonn Chambers.  He graduated from Wilbur High School in Lincoln County, Washington in 1935, and enrolled at Washington State College (WSC) that fall. While at WSC he was a emmber of the Chinook Business club and Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity; Kapp Psi, a business honorary society; Crimson Circle, and Scabbard and Blade. He was also a member of the Gamma Chi Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, a leadership development fraternity, for which he served two terms as the organization's president. Chambers was a cadet colonel in the R.O.T.C. at WSC during his senior year; he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration, Advertising, on June 3, 1940. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps, he was stationed at Fort Stotsenburg and Clark Air Field in the Philippines beginning in September 1941.  He was killed in action during the siege of Bataan on May 8, 1942. Chambers is buried in Tahoma Cemetery in Yakima, Washington.