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Clifford R. Perkins, Jr.

NAME
Clifford Roy Perkins, Jr.
NICKNAME
SERVICE NUMBER
O-14334
UNIT
VMSB-241
Pilot
HOME OF RECORD
Pine City, MN
NEXT OF KIN
Parents, Clifford & Amelia Perkins
DATE OF BIRTH
June 10, 1920
at Pine City, MN
ENTERED SERVICE
September 25, 1942 (commissioned)
at Corpus Christi
DATE OF LOSS
May 19, 1943
REGION
Central Pacific
CAMPAIGN / AREA
Samoa, Tutuila
CASUALTY TYPE
Non-battle death

CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS
First Lieutenant Clifford R. Perkins, Jr., was a pilot assigned to VMSB-241, a Marine dive-bomber squadron stationed at Samoa.

On 19 May 1943, Perkins was at the controls of an SBD “Dauntless” (SBD-4 BuNo 10618). While on a routine flight, and due to unknown causes, the bomber crashed at sea approximately five miles south of Tafuna Airfield at 1820 hours. Neither Lt. Perkins nor his radioman/gunner, Sergeant Charles B. Mellen, could be found after the accident, and both men were declared dead.

INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS

LAST KNOWN RANK
First Lieutenant
STATUS OF REMAINS
Not recovered.
MEMORIALS
Fort Snelling National Cemetery
Honolulu Memorial

Biography:
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