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F2c Donald Clash
Donald Clash was born Nov. 21, 1918, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His mother, Viola Sims Clash, was a homemaker and his father, Daniel Clash, a trimmer at an auto company.
His parents were natives of Michigan and were back in Kingsford in the Upper Peninsula by at least 1928.
When young Mr. Clash applied to enlist in the Navy he said he’d completed 10th grade but did not provide a detailed record. The only enlistment document identifying a school said he attended Lincoln Elementary in Iron Mountain, Michigan. He also served at Gibbs City, Michigan, in the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal Depression-era jobs program for young men.
He enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 8, 1940, earning $21 a month as an apprentice seaman. He was a fireman second class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
A cousin, James Clash, was a tech sergeant in the Army when he was killed in Germany in March 1945.
Sources: The Escanaba (Michigan) Daily Press; Minnesota birth certificate; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll; grave marker.
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