Clyde Biggs served on the USS Asheville, a gun boat, during World War II. On March 3 of 1942, the ship was engaged by two enemy destroyers and was sunk approximately 300 miles south of Java. All personnel were considered Missing In Action. It was later learned one survivor, FM/2c Fred Brown, was pulled from the water. Brown died, March 1945, in a POW camp in the Celebes, N.E.I., but not before telling the story of what had happened to the Asheville. After the war, a fellow POW reported Brown's tale to the US Navy. November 25, 1945, Clyde and his shipmates were officially considered Killed In Action (Buried at Sea).
Navy records show next of kin as his parents: Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey Biggs, San Francisco
According to a family researcher, Clyde was married in Shanghai about 1940 (to a Russian woman), but later divorced.
VA shows his birth month as above, family researchers in the internet list it as June.
Memorial marker for him at
San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
Santa Nella Village
Merced County
California, USA
Plot: M2, 0, 65
Navy records show next of kin as his parents: Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey Biggs, San Francisco
According to a family researcher, Clyde was married in Shanghai about 1940 (to a Russian woman), but later divorced.
VA shows his birth month as above, family researchers in the internet list it as June.
Memorial marker for him at
San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
Santa Nella Village
Merced County
California, USA
Plot: M2, 0, 65
Clyde Biggs served on the USS Asheville, a gun boat, during World War II. On March 3 of 1942, the ship was engaged by two enemy destroyers and was sunk approximately 300 miles south of Java. All personnel were considered Missing In Action. It was later learned one survivor, FM/2c Fred Brown, was pulled from the water. Brown died, March 1945, in a POW camp in the Celebes, N.E.I., but not before telling the story of what had happened to the Asheville. After the war, a fellow POW reported Brown's tale to the US Navy. November 25, 1945, Clyde and his shipmates were officially considered Killed In Action (Buried at Sea).
Navy records show next of kin as his parents: Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey Biggs, San Francisco
According to a family researcher, Clyde was married in Shanghai about 1940 (to a Russian woman), but later divorced.
VA shows his birth month as above, family researchers in the internet list it as June.
Memorial marker for him at
San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
Santa Nella Village
Merced County
California, USA
Plot: M2, 0, 65
Navy records show next of kin as his parents: Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey Biggs, San Francisco
According to a family researcher, Clyde was married in Shanghai about 1940 (to a Russian woman), but later divorced.
VA shows his birth month as above, family researchers in the internet list it as June.
Memorial marker for him at
San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
Santa Nella Village
Merced County
California, USA
Plot: M2, 0, 65
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