Herbert Clofine |
Herbert Clofine in uniform | World War II, 1939-1946
Army
5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) Merrill's Marauders, 2nd Battalion, Intelligence & Reconnaissance (I & R) Platoon, Blue Combat Team
Trinidad; China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater; Fort Knox, Kentucky
Second Lieutenant
Philadelphia, PA
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Determined to serve his country during World War II, Herbert Clofine wouldn't let a 4-F
deferment stop him. He asked to be a voluntary draftee. But after he trained to be a radio
operator, he found himself stuck in the States monitoring the coastline for submarines. He
answered a call for an unspecified dangerous mission and wound up in Bombay, India,
training for what would be know as Merrill's Marauders, the legendary fighting unit that
bedeviled the Japanese with guerrilla tactics, despite being vastly outnumbered. Clofine
was radioman with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon that worked ahead of the
Mauraders; a member of his team, Robert Landis, was the first American World War II
casualty in Asia.
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