KEVIN D. CLANCY, ENS, USN
Kevin Clancy '66
Lucky Bag
From the 1966 Lucky Bag:
KEVIN DOUGLAS CLANCY
Stoughton, Massachusetts
Kevin Clancy came to Crabtown from the Southern Shore of Massachusetts. An underaged chubby kid, Clance developed into a stalwart on the Batt football team and Company fieldball team. The Clance, known for his boyish grin, Irish temper, and fierce sense of competition, majored in keeping parties lively and minored in paying hotel bills. Everybody's pal, Clance has had no trouble making friends and should have no trouble in the future, whatever aspect of life he chooses.
He was also a member of the 1st Battalion staff (fall).
KEVIN DOUGLAS CLANCY
Stoughton, Massachusetts
Kevin Clancy came to Crabtown from the Southern Shore of Massachusetts. An underaged chubby kid, Clance developed into a stalwart on the Batt football team and Company fieldball team. The Clance, known for his boyish grin, Irish temper, and fierce sense of competition, majored in keeping parties lively and minored in paying hotel bills. Everybody's pal, Clance has had no trouble making friends and should have no trouble in the future, whatever aspect of life he chooses.
He was also a member of the 1st Battalion staff (fall).
Loss
According to Mike Baird, Class of 1966 secretary, Kevin was killed when his T-28 crashed during carrier qualifications aboard USS Lexington on July 19, 1967 in the Pensacola area.
Other Information
From researcher Kathy Franz:
Kevin was stationed with Training Squadron 5 at Saufley Field when his training aircraft skidded off the deck of the USS Lexington into the Gulf of Mexico, 75 miles south of the Naval Air Station.
The month before on June 24, Kevin participated in the arch of swords at the marriage of Mary Benson and Joel Eaton at Holy Trinity Chapel, NAS Pensacola. The other were: Lts. (j.g.) Bruce Davidson, Jerry Street and Charlie Cook, and Ensigns Tom Smirzek and Randy Cameron.
Kevin’s parents were Mr. and Mrs. David D. Clancy of Stoughton, Massachusetts.
He has a memory marker in Arlington National Cemetery.
From The Palm Beach Post on May 15, 1967:
An air-sea rescue search for the missing 30-foot ketch Ariadne was suspended Saturday night, after six days and 34 flights which covered more than a quarter million square miles of ocean, a spokesman for the Coast Guard’s Third District Headquarters at New York City told The Palm Beach Post Sunday night.
The vessel Ariadne, skippered by William H. Greenhalgh of Ontario, left home port at the West Palm Beach Marina April 17 supposedly bound for New York City according to Lt. Kevin Clancy, duty officer at Governor’s Island, eastern area CG headquarters, at New York City.
Many “leads” and “sightings” were checked, with negative results, Lt. Clancy said. At present the Coast Guard has an alert out on an “all ships broadcast,” and in addition the Navy has radioed a “hydrolant bulletin” to all fleet ships to be on the lookout for the missing ketch.
In the extensive search this past week, Gulf Stream currents and drift patterns were carefully figured, and planes searched the Atlantic Ocean from a point east of New York City to a point east of Charleston, S.C., Lt. Clancy said.
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