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He attended Moreland Notre Dame Academy and later enrolled in Watsonville High School. Gfroerer played on the high school baseball team during his school years. Following graduation from high school in 1950, he worked at the Service Printing Company and attended Hartnell College in Salinas. \r\n\r\nFrank Gfroerer was drafted into the US Army on June 11, 1951. After completing his army training courses, he was ordered to Korea in November 1951, where he joined Company A of the 1092nd Engineer Combat Battalion. The exact location in Korea where he served has not been identified; however, it is likely to have been in the vicinity of the Punchbowl near the 38th Parallel in Eastern Korea. During his tour in Korea, Frank was promoted to corporal and qualified for a five-day leave to Japan. While in Tokyo, Frank intended to acquire Christmas presents to bring to his family upon his rotation home later in the month. \r\nOn November 14, 1952, Corporal Frank Gfroerer was returning from Japan aboard a C-119C Flying Boxcar with forty-three other servicemen when it crashed into Mt. Yebong, a 2000-foot peak only a few minutes away from its Seoul destination. One reporter visiting the scene commented that many of the bodies were charred; indicating the plane had burned on crashing. \"As I walked through the wreckage,\" she said in a pooled dispatch, \"I found Christmas presents that the men had bought on R and R in Japan.\" \r\n\r\nThe remains of Corporal Gfroerer were recovered and returned to San Francisco aboard the troopship Iran Victory in February 1953. 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The family later moved to the Pajaro Valley where George attended Watsonville High School for three years. \r\n\r\nShortly after leaving high school in 1932, Ashton joined the US Army and remained in the service until 1935. After his discharge he returned to Watsonville, married Margaret and was hired by the Watsonville Lumber Company. The couple had two children George Jr. in 1937 and Emilie in 1939. \r\n\r\nOn July 27, 1942, George re-enlisted in the army in Monterey and served throughout World War II in the Persian Gulf and India. When the war ended, he returned to Watsonville and to his job as a foreman at the lumber company. \r\n\r\nIn the late 1940s Ashton decided to make the military his career and re-enlisted in the US Army at Fort Ord. He was assigned to the 3rd Engineer Combat Battalion of the 24th Infantry Division and sent to Japan. When the North Koreans attacked South Korea in June 1950, elements of the 24th Infantry Division were the first to arrive in Korea. 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He got two men and went into the river under heavy enemy fire and brought this boat to the friendly shore. Since there were no litter bearers on the beach Sergeant Ashton carried the wounded men across 300 yards of beach, swept by enemy fire, to a point of safety. After returning to the beach and placing four more boats in operation, Sergeant Ashton saw that one of the boat leaders had been wounded. He immediately took his place in the boat and started across the river with a load of infantrymen. A mortar shell struck and exploded in or near the boat fatally wounding Sergeant Ashton and seriously wounding 11 others aboard the boat. \r\nDisregarding his wounds, Sergeant Ashton called for aid from the beach for the other wounded men, before losing consciousness.”\r\n \r\nThe remains of Sergeant First Class George Ashton were returned to the United States and buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno. 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