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3 unusual facts about Grandison Gardner


Crestview, Florida

After Eglin Commanding Officer Brigadier General Grandison Gardner explained the economics of wartime to the city fathers, they chose a more reasonable replacement for town marshall.

Grandison Gardner

Gardner was born in Pine Valley, Utah, in 1892, to John Alexander Gardner (1852 - 31 January 1931) and Celestia Snow Gardner (1859 - 13 September 1959).

In August 1923 he went to Luke Field, Hawaii, for duty with the 23d Bomb Squadron, assuming command of it the following July.



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