Marshall Fullilove Snook (1914 - 1944)

Born 1 Nov 1914 in Athens, Clarke, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Virginia (McDowell) Snook — married 8 Nov 1942 in Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States

Died 10 Mar 1944 at age 29 in At Sea

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Biography

Marshall Snook was awarded the Purple Heart.

Chief Gunner's Mate Marshall Snook served in the United States Coast Guard in World War II
Service started: 1942
Unit(s):
Service ended: 10 March 1944

Marshall Fullilove was born in 1914. He was the son of George Hayden Snook and Bessie Kerr.

He passed away when the USS Leopold was sunk by enemy action on 10 March 1944. Leopold was struck by an acoustic torpedo fired from the German submarine U-255. Shortly after the torpedo strike, the crew of Leopold began to abandon ship as she broke in half.^[1][2] Only 28 out of a complement of 200 escaped death in the loss of the vessel - one of the worst sea tragedies of the war.^[3]

Marshall's name appears on the "Tablets of the Missing" in the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England.

Notes

"The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial site in England, 30.5 acres in total, was donated by the University of Cambridge. It lies on a slope with the west and south sides framed by woodland. The cemetery contains the remains of 3,811 of our war dead; 5,127 names are recorded on the Walls of the Missing. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. Most died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in the strategic air bombardment of northwest Europe."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "USS Leopold (DE-319)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Leopold_(DE-319)&oldid=1090962178 (accessed July 1, 2022).
2. ↑ American Battle Monuments Commission Marshall F. Snook
3. ↑ Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive USS Leopold (DE 319) http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/319.htm
4. ↑ Cambridge American Cemetery

See also:

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SY8F-KPZ : accessed 1 July 2022), Marchel F Snook, Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 12, sheet 1B, line 51, family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 324; FHL microfilm 2,340,059.