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Last Rank
Private First Class
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Last Primary MOS
844-Gun Crewman Light Artillery
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Last MOS Group
Field Artillery (Enlisted)
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Primary Unit
1942-1944, POW/MIA
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Service Years
1940 - 1944
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Personal Details
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Home State
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Year of Birth
1914 |
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to remember
Whittington, Clarence H., Pfc.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town
High Point |
Last Address
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Casualty Date
Feb 15, 1944 |
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Cause
Hostile, Died while Captured |
Reason
Intentional Homicide |
Location
Japan |
Conflict
WWII - Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42) |
Location of Interment
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Wall/Plot Coordinates
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Last Known Activity
PFC Clarence Whittington served with Battery A, 60th Coastal Artillery, Anti-Aircraft (AA) in the Philippines. He was captured on Corregidore during the surrender on 6 May 1942.
He died as a result of starvation and beatings by Japanese as a POW in Camp # 7B Fukuoka, Omuta, Kyushu Island, Japan.
Final burial site not known at this time.
Note: According to the 1940 Federal Census, he was a Pvt. stationed at the Fort McDowell Miltary Reservation at Sausalito, Marin County, California. In 1935, he had been living in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Comments/Citation
Notes/Links:
http://www.lindavdahl.com/
http://philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/fukuoka_camp_17.html
http://cdsg.org/old/reprint%20PDFs/CACreg1.pdf
http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/camplists/fukuoka/fuku_07_futase/fuku_07_roster_yank.html
SEE: Ezequiel L. Ortiz, James A. McClure, Don Jose: An American Soldier's Courage and Faith in Japanese Captivity, Sunstone Press, New Mexico, 2012, page 159.
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