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| Seaman 2/c Clyde Barnes was killed when the USS Turner exploded outside of New York Harbor. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113157287/clyde-v_-barnes http://wikimapia.org/14907249/Wreck-of-USS-Turner-DD-648 |
Clyde V. Barnes never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.
He was born on February 10, 1919 in Tennessee. His parents Vernon and Lizzie were also both born in Tennessee. His father worked as a farmer. He died in 1936. Clyde had two older sisters, two younger brothers, and a younger sister. By 1940 his mother was running the family farm with Clyde's help. He had completed eight years of schooling.
He enlisted in the US Navy on September 18, 1941. He became a seaman second class on the destroyer USS Turner. Turner was commission in April 1943. It was assigned to convoy escort duty in the Atlantic.
Having completed a convoy escort, Turner anchored outside of New York Harbor during the evening of January 2, 1944. Early the next morning, the destroyer suffered a series of devastating internal explosions. A final explosion at 0750 sent her to the bottom. The catastrophe cost the lives of 15 officers and 123 enlisted men including Clyde Barnes. The Navy was not able to determine what started the series of explosions that doomed the ship.
His grave is at Pleasant Green Cemetery in Bradford, Tennessee.
Last year on this date I profiled Hollis Rider, 79th Infantry Division. You can read about Hollis here.
On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!
I created this video to explain why I started this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY.
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