Clyde Hopkins McCrosky, Jr. was the son of Clyde Hopkins McCroskey, Sr., and Mary Maulding. He attended the Dermott public school's, Hall's Preperatory School at Columbia, Missouri, the University of Missouri and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduating in 1935.
McCrosky was first assigned to the USS NEW ORLEANS then to the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, for flight training and assignment to the USS LEXINGTON. He served as a flight instructor for one year after graduating from flight school and on the staff of the West Coast Defense Area General Headquarters. In 1943, he was given command of Composite Squadron 58 made up of Wildcat fighters and Avenger torpedo bombers, with the responsibility to equip and train the personnel assigned. The squadron was attached to the USS BLOCK ISLAND (CVE-21 - sunk by a German submarine on 5/29/1944) in December 1943 and on it's first mission sunk a German submarine with a probable sinking of a second.
Commander McCrosky was killed before the second trip, crash landing at the Norfolk Naval Training Station during night carrier landings.
McCrosky was first assigned to the USS NEW ORLEANS then to the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, for flight training and assignment to the USS LEXINGTON. He served as a flight instructor for one year after graduating from flight school and on the staff of the West Coast Defense Area General Headquarters. In 1943, he was given command of Composite Squadron 58 made up of Wildcat fighters and Avenger torpedo bombers, with the responsibility to equip and train the personnel assigned. The squadron was attached to the USS BLOCK ISLAND (CVE-21 - sunk by a German submarine on 5/29/1944) in December 1943 and on it's first mission sunk a German submarine with a probable sinking of a second.
Commander McCrosky was killed before the second trip, crash landing at the Norfolk Naval Training Station during night carrier landings.
Clyde Hopkins McCrosky, Jr. was the son of Clyde Hopkins McCroskey, Sr., and Mary Maulding. He attended the Dermott public school's, Hall's Preperatory School at Columbia, Missouri, the University of Missouri and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, graduating in 1935.
McCrosky was first assigned to the USS NEW ORLEANS then to the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, for flight training and assignment to the USS LEXINGTON. He served as a flight instructor for one year after graduating from flight school and on the staff of the West Coast Defense Area General Headquarters. In 1943, he was given command of Composite Squadron 58 made up of Wildcat fighters and Avenger torpedo bombers, with the responsibility to equip and train the personnel assigned. The squadron was attached to the USS BLOCK ISLAND (CVE-21 - sunk by a German submarine on 5/29/1944) in December 1943 and on it's first mission sunk a German submarine with a probable sinking of a second.
Commander McCrosky was killed before the second trip, crash landing at the Norfolk Naval Training Station during night carrier landings.
McCrosky was first assigned to the USS NEW ORLEANS then to the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, for flight training and assignment to the USS LEXINGTON. He served as a flight instructor for one year after graduating from flight school and on the staff of the West Coast Defense Area General Headquarters. In 1943, he was given command of Composite Squadron 58 made up of Wildcat fighters and Avenger torpedo bombers, with the responsibility to equip and train the personnel assigned. The squadron was attached to the USS BLOCK ISLAND (CVE-21 - sunk by a German submarine on 5/29/1944) in December 1943 and on it's first mission sunk a German submarine with a probable sinking of a second.
Commander McCrosky was killed before the second trip, crash landing at the Norfolk Naval Training Station during night carrier landings.
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