Rank/Rate	Boatswain
Service Number	019 88 59
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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