Gordon Robert Myers
Graduating
Class of 1937
Served in
World War II
![Attached photograph of Captain Myers](https://cdn.uwgoldstarhonorroll.org/2017-08/MyersGordonR_gstar0010.jpg)
Captain
Gordon Robert Myers
Army
51st Infantry Division
52nd Infantry Division
Hometown
Racine, WI
Date of Birth
Location of Death
Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines
Date of Death
Location of Burial
Mound Cemetery, Racine, WI
More About Captain Myers
Captain Myers studied Agricultural Engineering and was a member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. His senior year he served as a Sergeant and Second Lieutenant of the Cadet Corps.
Captain Myers was awarded the Silver Star. He was killed when the Japanese prisoner ship he was on sank off the Bataan peninsula in Subic Bay.
Capt. Myers was declared Missing in Action or Buried at Sea, and is now memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery in Manila, Philippines.