Army Retires Maj. D. J. Skaff
Officer in Engineers Served Overseas for Two and Half Years.
Maj. David J. Skaff, attached to the engineering corps since he entered the army August 25, 1940, has received medical retirement and has returned to Sioux City. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Joseph Skaff, 1415 Virginia Street. He has been overseas for the last two and a half years in Australia and New Guinea. He wears ribbons denoting service in the Asiatic, Pacific and Australian areas and two stars for participating in major engagements.
His engineering duties took him to Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin and Brisbane in Australia and to New Guinea. As an officer in the engineering corps he directed units in building docks, bridges, roads and hospital.
His medical retirement was the result of injuries received in a railroad accident in Brisbane, Australia.
Maj. Skaff is a native Sioux Cityan and is a graduate of Central High School. He was a reserve officer for eight years prior to enlistment.
A brother Joseph while in the navy was drowned in the Mediterranean, about nine months ago while operating a whale boat which was capsized. He is buried in Tunisia. Another brother Abraham is in the medical corps in the Italian sector.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, August 23, 1944
Iowa Honor Roll
These Iowans have given their lives for their country. Each man pictured here has been killed in combat or has died in a prison camp. This group includes the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, who went down with the Juneau. The fourth line under each picture indicates the area in which the man last served. Further Honor Roll photographs will be carried here later.
Source: The Des Moines Register, Sunday, February 27, 1944 (photo included)
Joseph George Skaff died Nov. 21, 1964 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
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