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Herbert Gasser

aka: Gasser

Army

"Gasser" was often referred to in Shep's Army stories. He was the Army equivelent of a "Flick" or "Schwartz" in Shep's stories. On the July 3, 1965 show "The Dago Bomb" Shep even takes credit for having Gasser parachuted into Germany.

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[ Courtesy: Steve Glazer - 09-21-2015 ]
           
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Where Shep Makes Reference To This Subject:

Time	Date	Category	Title
•	July 3, 1965	Radio	The Dago Bomb
•	April 30, 1966	Radio	Sex Education; Top Secret Radar; $20 in Library Book
•	July 11, 1966	Radio	Archy Declares War, Army Cockroaches
•	July 23, 1966	Radio	Forced March Through the Ozarks with Gasser & Goldberg
• 47:58	April 1, 1967	Radio	Patent Medicine
•	August 26, 1967	Radio	Minor League Baseball, Amusement Park Rides, Leave at the Boardwalk.
•	October 7, 1967	Radio	Concrete Mexicans / Shep, the Colonel, and Sweetheart Pillows
•	November 11, 1967	Radio	Hobbies, Radar, Beer and Tonsils
• 46:28	October 10, 1970	Radio	Story of Company K and Spanish Fly
• 28:08	January 29, 1971	Radio	Gasser & Shep Almost Tattood Long Branch, NJ
• 26:06	December 24, 1973	Radio	Christmas Service Poem, The 3 Day Pass
• 33:14	January 9, 1974	Radio	Real Mysteries, Awakening Sleeping Animals
• 13:06	October 22, 1974	Radio	Laying Wire From the Air
• 33:10	November 27, 1974	Radio	Thanksgiving in the Army
• 10:24	January 24, 1975	Radio	Signal Corps - Special Order
•	December 24, 1975	Radio	Christmas in the Army, Pole Line Construction
•	October 3, 1962	Radio	Army Pass in NY
• 35:17	November 13, 1962	Radio	Army, Area Two
• 40:25	March 4, 1964	Radio	Boles Wedding
• 30:00	1967	Radio	TV Commercials, Boardwalk Pass, Latrine Orderly

Photos:

January 23, 1943
Army Enlistment

Courtesy: Steve Glazer

July 1944
Gasser in Central Park

Courtesy: Randall Shepherd

February 12, 1973
Gasser Retires

Courtesy: Steve Glazer

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975