Gaston Coblentz

Military

Object Number - UPL 47533 - Major Gaston Coblentz 47th BG - 86th BS - 12th AF Coblentz flew 97 combat missions. This photo is from his 1939 Harvard University Yearbook

Gaston Coblentz was a successful and well respected investment banker and writer after the war.

Graduate cum laude Hotchkiss School, 1936. Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, 1939. Foreign correspondent New York Herald Tribune, New York City, 1946-1963.

Partner, director Mitchell Hutchins & Company, Incorporated., New York City, 1963-1977.

Senior vice-president, director Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins International, Incorporated., Paris, 1977-1979. Director Gaston Coblentz& Company Limited., Saint Helier, Jersey, Imperial Order of the Crown of India, 1979-1981, United Kingdom representative, 1982.
Gaston Coblentz has been listed as a noteworthy investment company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

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Units served with

A-26 Invaders, including (serial number 43-22575) of the 47th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force lined up in Italy.

47th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

86th Bomb Squadron

  • Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
  • Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

41-3246

  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Unit: 47th Bomb Group 86th Bomb Squadron

Places

Ground personnel of the 51st Fighter Group, 10th Air Force work on a P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-29264). Handwritten caption on reverse: '51 FG, 316 FS, [illegible].'

Grosetto

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Grosetto Main

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

New York, NY 8 June 1918

Enlisted

Fort Bragg, NC 4 November 1941

Other

Crash Landed

Poretta Airfield, Corsica 15 August 1944 Crash landed A-20B 41-3246. The a/c was written off

Died

Cannes, France 11 September 2001

Buried

Middle Village, Queens, New York 20 September 2001 Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium Middle Village, Queens County, New York, USA (date of burial is approximate)

Other

Graduated Bachelor Cum Laude

Cambridge, MA Harvard University

Revisions

Date27 Jan 2021 03:47:18
Contributor466thHistorian
ChangesCreated entry with surname, firstname, nationality, highest rank, role, biography, events, unit associations and place associations
Sources

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10621276/person/-60787…
https://prabook.com/web/gaston.coblentz/292585
https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/dir_school/?name=Gaston_Cobl…
"47th Bomb Group" Turner Publishing, page 73

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