Biography of Dale M. Garvey
1st Lt., Camp Commander, Co. 4726 Chamberlain, SD & Presho SD & Unknown Camp, Columbia, SD & Co. 4710, Camp SCS-11, Blair, NE, USA
Col., 12th Army Group, Normandy, Paris, Battle of the Bulge, WWII Cold War, USA
Lieutenant Dale M. Garvey
My Dad Dale Garvey, was a 2/Lt at 4710. He reported there on July 7, 1937 as the Junior Officer as an exchange officer. He later was reassigned to Chamberlain SD when the commander broke his leg in a baseball game..
One of Lt. Garvey's CCC Camps
Pursuant to a June 1939 article in the Company 4726 camp newspaper, The Islander, "Lieutenant Dale M. Garvey, took command of Co. 4776 on June 2, returning to American Island after two and one -half months absence during which time he served as junior officer at the Columbia, S. Dak. CCC camp.
Lt. Garvey was assigned to CCC duty June 1, 1937, at the Blair, Neb., camp. He is a graduate of Kansas State college, Manhattan, Kansas. During the late summer of 1938 he was transferred to Co. 4726, then located at Presho, coming to American Island with the company in October. In April he was transferred to Columbia, returning here as commanding officer on June 2.
Having received an appointment to active duty with the army under the Thomason act, Lt. Garvey received military training at Ft. Crook for one year before coming to CCC duty. A second lieutenant, the new commanding officer will receive his commission of 1st Lieutenant at an early date, it is expected."
Lieutenant Dale M. Garvey
1st Lt Roscoe A. Conklin, Air-Res. & 2nd Lieutenant Dale M. Garvey, Inf-Res., CCC Co. 4710, Blair, Nebr., 1936
Our Home for 9 months in 1937 before moving to CCC Co 4726 to Chamberlain, S Dak.. Home was a tourist cabin. No hot water (water came from ground at 97 degrees.) No ice, no refrigeration, Dale M. Garvey, Inf-Res., CCC Co. 4710, Blair, Nebr., 1936
Dad graduated from K State. Mother went to Nebraska. Dad went through ROTC and stated with a reserve commission and assigned to Blair (now Offutt Air Force Base). Mother was an Aksarben Ball princess. Dad was a military escort. At some point her boy friend broke his leg and dad offered to drive her to see him. They were married in 36.
They went from Chamberlain to Mitchell Field where somewhere a Detroit newspaper has a photo of him behind a machine gun defending our Northern Border after Pearl Harbor.
Brady sent for him to work in intel in the 12th Army Group. He landed in Normandy D+12 commanding an Intel Battalion and was in Paris before it was liberated by the French. Went through the Battle of the Bulge. Captured the IG Farbin Building. Captured Claus Barbie and used him as a double agent. In 1949 he went to Command and General Staff College at Ft Leavenworth and missed going to Korea because of the birth of my brother. (He was going to command a tank battalion but it deployed to Korea). He spent several years at Ft Knox and then he went to Germany to command the 2nd Armd Div Trains (now called Division Support Command) at Bad Kreuznach. A G-2 assignment at Heidelberg then Army War College and JCS at the Pentagon where he had his first heart attack. He eventually retired as a O6.
Family went to Kansas. I joined the army. He got a MS in Political Science and taught at Emporia State where he developed a concept of using simulation to teach political science.
----- Dale Garvey
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