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Simon Gratz High School

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Colonel Gardner Warren Engel Usaf Obituary

Graduation Year Class of 1937
Date of Passing Feb 04, 2008
About Gardner passed on his birthday watching the Super Bowl
He served valiantly in WWII as a Captain of a P-47D fighter plane. Shot down 3 Germans while earning the Distinguished Flying Cross several times and the legion of merit
Gardner went on to a full career in the USAF after the war and retiring as a full Colonel after 30 years
Colonel Gardner Warren Engel Usaf