Guss Babb served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in World War II. He graduated from the Armored Officer Candidate School at Fort Knox, Kentucky as a member of its 51st graduating class. The History of OCS at Fort Knox states: "Officially, OCS at Fort Knox produced 11,349 officers. While most of these served in armored units, many led anti-tank units and other units necessary to support the mobile force the United States produced, probably the most mobile force of World War II." Lt. Babb was a student aviation cadet at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas in 1948. As a result of battle fatigue from 1944 to 1946, Babb shot and killed himself on October 17, 1948 after being recalled to duty.
