Falls veteran helped patrol the high seas
NEWTON FALLS - Gilbert ''Gib'' Layshock stepped off the football field and onto a naval carrier.
In 1943, at the age of 19, Layshock was drafted into the United States Navy, where he would spend the next three years aboard a ship, traveling across the world.
Serving as an electrician 3rd class, he worked on the escort carrier the USS Mission Bay during World War II, starting with training in Detroit and then moving down to Norfolk, Va.
''I only got sick once and that was from the time I left Norfolk up to New York City,'' Layshock laughed.
He quickly got his ''sea legs'' and remained on the crew of the Mission Bay until the war ended.
''The war ended and I was in New York City when they had the big celebration. We were getting ready to go to the West Coast,'' he said.
Between being drafted in 1943 and the end of the war, Layshock and his shipmates were part of missions that brought them to the shores of Africa, the Caribbean and South America.
''My first trip to Africa, we brought back guys whose carrier had sunk,'' he recalled. ''They only lost one guy and we brought them back to the States.''
Layshock remembered seeing the lights of Cape Town, South Africa, as the ship approached the coast, saying that the city was ''beautiful.''
One of the most anxious missions for Layshock was when the Mission Bay was on a trip to South Africa.
''We had two carriers filled with P51 fighter planes, unprotected,'' he said.
The missions had called for the Mission Bay to be escorted by the British, but it took five days for them to arrive.
''We took a bunch of P51s on two ships. The British, they were protecting us and our boys left and we were there five days like that when (the British) finally came up and took us down to Cape Town,'' he said.
He also remembers the harsh storms that the Mission Bay encountered during his time at sea, including two hurricanes.
''We were coming into New York City at night and hit this storm,'' he said. ''Everyone had their life belts on, laying in their bunks. I was on watch and took one of these cans to sit on and slid across the deck (as the the boat listed).''
During his time on the Mission Bay, Layshock was part of a mission that sent them to Gibraltar to escort the ship carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt following his meeting on the island of Yalta with Britain's Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin.
When the war ended, Layshock left his time in the Navy behind him and returned to Newton Falls where he took a job at Newton Falls Steel Tube.
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