Born in 1922 and from Lake County, Indiana. Garbish enlisted on 21 January 1943 Ball turret gunner of the B-17 Flying Fortress 42-102572 9ZN "Why Worry II" that took off from Station 142 Deopham Green in Norfolk, UK, on May 27, 1944 on a mission to bomb Strasbourg, France. The plane was hit by flak and was forced to do a belly landing in a field 1 km NE of Avoudrey, France, as it was lost and short of fuel. The entire crew survived the landing at 1320 in the afternoon. S/SGT Garbish escaped imprisonment through evasion to Switzerland. He returned to the United Kingdom on 6 September 1944.