Clyde B. Short, World War II CasualtyPorter County Data on World War II Casualties . . . .
Clyde B. Short
Fireman First Class, US Navy Reserve
Date of Death: December 3, 1944
Cause of Death: Missing in Action (died when the destroyer USS Cooper was
sunk by a Japanese torpedo attack near Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippines)
Date of Enlistment: April 1942
Monument: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery, Manila,
Philippines
Hometown: Valparaiso
Newspaper Notices:
Clyde Short Killed; Air Pilot Found
Clyde B. Short, fireman, first Class, U. S. Navy, was killed in action in the
South Pacific on December 3, 1944, according to word received Thursday by his
wife Jeraldine Snyder Short, 457, Greenwich street, Valparaiso.
Fireman Short had been in the service since April, 1942, and had been in the
South Pacific since August, 1944. Before joining up he was employed in Gary at
the plant of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation.
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Short, of Pigeon, West Virginia. A brother,
Carney R. Short, is employed at the McGill Manufacturing company, bearing
division.
Lieut. William Cushing, of the U. S. Army Air Corps, reported missing in the
Philippine theater of war since February 5, is alive and well, according to word
received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Cushing, of Crocker. A letter has
been received stating he and members of his crew were safe.
A Porter man, Sgt. Frank Cummings, was seriously wounded in Germany on January
28, according to a war department telegram received this week by his mother,
Mrs. Howard Cummings, of Porter. Sgt. Cummings was in an infantry division with
Gen Patton's 3rd army. His wife is a school teacher in Richmond, Mich.
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Source: The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana;
February 16, 1945; Volume 18, Page 1, Column 7
War Victim
Clyde B. Short, fireman, first class, U. S. Navy, husband of Geraldine Snyder
Short, 457 Greenwich street, Valparaiso, was killed in action in the South
Pacific on December 3, 1944. A member of the armed forces since April, 1942,
Fireman Short had been in the South Pacific since August, 1944. He was employed
by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation in Gary.
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Source: The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana;
February 20, 1945; Volume 18, Page 1, Column 1
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Information abstracted and transcribed by Steven R. Shook