Second Lieutenant Merlin Clarence Douglass | UW Gold Star Honor Roll
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Merlin Clarence Douglass

Graduating Class of 1940
Served in World War II

Second Lieutenant
Merlin Clarence Douglass

Army
70th Bombardment Squadron
38th Bombardment Group

Hometown

Coloma, WI

Date of Birth

Location of Death

Fiji

Date of Death

Location of Burial

Unknown

More About Second Lieutenant Douglass

While flying from Nandi Airfield in Fiji on a local altitude training flight, Second Lieutenant Douglass and his crew had a mid-air collision with another plane south of Itai Island. Both planes fell into the sea and everyone was killed.