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JACK ARRIVED AT WEST POINT a product of Washington, D.C.’s best schools and society. His father was Major General John McMullan Gulick, Chief of Coast Artillery at the time Jack entered West Point. Jack was quiet of manner and not particularly athletic by nature, but this quiet demeanor covered a brave and determined heart</p>
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At West Point Jack exhibited exceptional skills in writing and acting-talents that were used in many Color Lines and 100th Night Shows. Later the Air Force capitalized on his ability by placing him as chief of their awards branch in the Pentagon.</p>
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Jack’s military career started quietly enough at Fort Monroe as a lieutenant of Coast Artillery. Here he helped at the local West Point Prep School in addition to performing normal battery duties.</p>
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Next came duty in the Philippines, where he was swept up in the holocaust of World War II. Jack’s innate toughness stood him in good stead, and he was able to survive over three years of POW camps.</p>
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Of Jack’s combat service, Colonel Morris L. Shoss, his battery executive officer in Battery C, 91st CA(PS), writes: “His remarkable military exploits with his unit, his dynamic leadership, and his acts of valor marked him as one of the truly great, but unsung heroes of Bataan and Corregidor. Extremely modest in accepting praise, he left an indelible impression on those privileged to serve with and under him as to the meaning of DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY.</p>
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“Caught with his unit on Fort Wint, Subic Bay, at the outbreak of the war, he managed by amazing improvisation of primitive boats and barges, to move the organization and all available mobile artillery to Bataan one step ahead of the enemy. All these weapons proved to be invaluable in the defense of Bataan.</p>
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“The composite anti-aircraft artillery command he organized, by its novel leap frog tactics and precision gunner,” accounted for 15 enemy planes, the largest number ever recorded for any battery-size unit. Always moving where the action was hottest, Jack Gulick was seriously wounded twice in Bataan. Once a shell fragment penetrated his helmet and creased his skull, permanently parting his hair. The next time, he was almost decapitated by a bulldozer while supervising the construction of a jungle trail at night.</p>
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“When Bataan fell and the guns had been spiked, and the ammunition destroyed, Jack Gulick with his skull and jaw wired in place, led his unit on a remarkable escape to Corregidor under the noses of the victory-drunk conquerors.</p>
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‘Then came a series of counter-battery duels during which the fixed batteries of Corregidor were gradually pounded into rubble. At the end it was Battery Gulick, a suicide-roving battery of 155mm guns, GPF. On the morning of the invasion of Monkey Point by the enemy, only one gun was in commission. It was located along a cut below Topside firing direct fire into the invading forces. I believe that it was this gun that was the last firing weapon on Corregidor and which was silenced by a direct order of a senior colonel Ceremoniously, befitting Artillery tradition, the gun was spiked and blown.</p>
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“In prison camp Jack recognized new challenges for service and leadership. He rallied the spirits of his men and friends and encouraged them to find ways to survive. He survived the sinking of a POW ship in Manila Harbor and ended the war in Korea, where he was freed in September 1945."</p>
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After World War II Jack transferred to the newly-born U. S. Air Force. He served as Squadron Commander or staff officer at various places, such as Patrick AFB, Camp Kilmer, Manhattan Beach, Mitchel AFB, Selfridge AFB, and the Pentagon. He attended the Air Command and Staff College and the Armed Forces Staff College. He returned to Korea for 13 months in November 1952 as an organization commander at K47.</p>
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Jack retired in 1961. He was studying for his master's degree in history at George Washington University when his mother became ill and he was needed at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It was while there, as he was engaged in settling his mother’s estate, that Jack fought another brave but losing battle; this time with cancer.</p>
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<em>-His roommate</em></p>