Ada Youth Is Bomber Victim
Sgt. Donald Clark, 24, Air Corps Radio Operator, Killed in Oregon
ADA, Jan. 19 - Plans were made today to return here for burial the body of Sgt. Donald Ross Clark, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Clark, who reside four miles northeast of Ada, killed in a U.S. Army bomber crash Saturday near Pendleton, Ore.
The flier is survived, besides his parents, by a brother, Mack Clark, E. Elm-st, a Lima beverage truck driver, and one sister, Mrs. Dan Firestone, of Findlay.
Eight men died in the crash which occurred two and a half miles north of Pendleton, where Sgt. Clark was based at Ft. George Wright.
He was a radio operator. The crash occurred at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Pendleton time or 2:30 o'clock Ohio time.
The army listed following victims of the crash, besides Sgt. Clark: Second Lt. A. J. Francisco, pilot, Kansas City, Mo.; Second Lt. R. C. Shaws, co-pilot, Soso, Miss.; Second Lt. L. E. Grindle, navigator, Thurman, Iowa; Staff Sgt. A. D. Spiers, Sarson, Va.; Corp. V. A. Learman, Baraboo, Wis.; Pvt. G. T. Vrable, Ashley, Pa., and Pvt. L. Fagan, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sgt. Clark, a graduate of Dola high school in the class of 1935, had been in the army air corps for three years. He gained his initial training at Chanute Field, Ill., later being transferred to McDill Field, Tampa, Fla.
Only recently, his parents said, he had been sent to the west coast air base. According to his last letter home, Sgt. Clark had gone on numerous flights testing new bombers.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, January 19, 1942)
Sgt. Donald Clark, 24, Air Corps Radio Operator, Killed in Oregon
ADA, Jan. 19 - Plans were made today to return here for burial the body of Sgt. Donald Ross Clark, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Clark, who reside four miles northeast of Ada, killed in a U.S. Army bomber crash Saturday near Pendleton, Ore.
The flier is survived, besides his parents, by a brother, Mack Clark, E. Elm-st, a Lima beverage truck driver, and one sister, Mrs. Dan Firestone, of Findlay.
Eight men died in the crash which occurred two and a half miles north of Pendleton, where Sgt. Clark was based at Ft. George Wright.
He was a radio operator. The crash occurred at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Pendleton time or 2:30 o'clock Ohio time.
The army listed following victims of the crash, besides Sgt. Clark: Second Lt. A. J. Francisco, pilot, Kansas City, Mo.; Second Lt. R. C. Shaws, co-pilot, Soso, Miss.; Second Lt. L. E. Grindle, navigator, Thurman, Iowa; Staff Sgt. A. D. Spiers, Sarson, Va.; Corp. V. A. Learman, Baraboo, Wis.; Pvt. G. T. Vrable, Ashley, Pa., and Pvt. L. Fagan, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sgt. Clark, a graduate of Dola high school in the class of 1935, had been in the army air corps for three years. He gained his initial training at Chanute Field, Ill., later being transferred to McDill Field, Tampa, Fla.
Only recently, his parents said, he had been sent to the west coast air base. According to his last letter home, Sgt. Clark had gone on numerous flights testing new bombers.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, January 19, 1942)
Ada Youth Is Bomber Victim
Sgt. Donald Clark, 24, Air Corps Radio Operator, Killed in Oregon
ADA, Jan. 19 - Plans were made today to return here for burial the body of Sgt. Donald Ross Clark, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Clark, who reside four miles northeast of Ada, killed in a U.S. Army bomber crash Saturday near Pendleton, Ore.
The flier is survived, besides his parents, by a brother, Mack Clark, E. Elm-st, a Lima beverage truck driver, and one sister, Mrs. Dan Firestone, of Findlay.
Eight men died in the crash which occurred two and a half miles north of Pendleton, where Sgt. Clark was based at Ft. George Wright.
He was a radio operator. The crash occurred at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Pendleton time or 2:30 o'clock Ohio time.
The army listed following victims of the crash, besides Sgt. Clark: Second Lt. A. J. Francisco, pilot, Kansas City, Mo.; Second Lt. R. C. Shaws, co-pilot, Soso, Miss.; Second Lt. L. E. Grindle, navigator, Thurman, Iowa; Staff Sgt. A. D. Spiers, Sarson, Va.; Corp. V. A. Learman, Baraboo, Wis.; Pvt. G. T. Vrable, Ashley, Pa., and Pvt. L. Fagan, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sgt. Clark, a graduate of Dola high school in the class of 1935, had been in the army air corps for three years. He gained his initial training at Chanute Field, Ill., later being transferred to McDill Field, Tampa, Fla.
Only recently, his parents said, he had been sent to the west coast air base. According to his last letter home, Sgt. Clark had gone on numerous flights testing new bombers.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, January 19, 1942)
Sgt. Donald Clark, 24, Air Corps Radio Operator, Killed in Oregon
ADA, Jan. 19 - Plans were made today to return here for burial the body of Sgt. Donald Ross Clark, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Clark, who reside four miles northeast of Ada, killed in a U.S. Army bomber crash Saturday near Pendleton, Ore.
The flier is survived, besides his parents, by a brother, Mack Clark, E. Elm-st, a Lima beverage truck driver, and one sister, Mrs. Dan Firestone, of Findlay.
Eight men died in the crash which occurred two and a half miles north of Pendleton, where Sgt. Clark was based at Ft. George Wright.
He was a radio operator. The crash occurred at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Pendleton time or 2:30 o'clock Ohio time.
The army listed following victims of the crash, besides Sgt. Clark: Second Lt. A. J. Francisco, pilot, Kansas City, Mo.; Second Lt. R. C. Shaws, co-pilot, Soso, Miss.; Second Lt. L. E. Grindle, navigator, Thurman, Iowa; Staff Sgt. A. D. Spiers, Sarson, Va.; Corp. V. A. Learman, Baraboo, Wis.; Pvt. G. T. Vrable, Ashley, Pa., and Pvt. L. Fagan, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sgt. Clark, a graduate of Dola high school in the class of 1935, had been in the army air corps for three years. He gained his initial training at Chanute Field, Ill., later being transferred to McDill Field, Tampa, Fla.
Only recently, his parents said, he had been sent to the west coast air base. According to his last letter home, Sgt. Clark had gone on numerous flights testing new bombers.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, January 19, 1942)
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