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Claude Dewitt Combs

Claude Dewitt Combs

 Purple HeartPrisoner of War Medal

Rank/Rate Boatswain
Service Number 198859 (Warrant Officer)
Birth Date February 7, 1903
From San Diego, California
Decorations Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death October 24, 1944
Location Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru
Circumstances Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)
Remarks Claude was born in Mount Vernon, Illinois.

Photo courtesy of Eleanore Combs Johnson, daughter, via Harold and Robbye Dunning.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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