David Parker Gibbs

Major General David P. Gibbs (March 11, 1911 – August 30, 1987) was a United States Army General. He graduated from West Point as a second lieutenant in 1933. A career soldier in the Signal Corps, he became Chief of Communications-Electronics in the Department of the Army Staff, a position formerly called "Chief Signal Officer". He earned the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Croix de Guerre (War Cross) and the Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters.

He followed these stateside postings with postings to Korea and Japan from 1953 to 1955. In 1955, he was Chief Signal Officer at Headquarters, Continental Army Command (now the Training and Doctrine Command - TRADOC) as a brigadier general and then commanding officer of the Signal Training Center at Fort Gordon, and Chief of Staff for Communications and Electronics, Headquarters, North American Defense Command Center. He was promoted to major general and advanced from first assistant to Chief Signal Officer in 1963, a position held by his father George Sabin Gibbs from 1928 to 1931.

Major General Gibbs died in August 1987. He was interred at Fort Huachuca Cemetery in Sierra Vista, Arizona.