Notes About N.E. Iowans in the Service.
Mitchell—Word received from Pvt. Claude E. Black by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Black of Mitchell, is that he is still hospitalized in England. He was fighting every day in France from the day they made the Omaha beachhead until he was wounded near Metz. He was in a fox hole once when his pack got 10 bullet holes through it. He could feel each shot hit his mess kit and thought each time the next one would get him. His wife, the former Mildred Clark, has received his Purple Heart, with three stars. Private Black also has four Bronze stars, six ribbons and six overseas stripes.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, December 6, 1944
Claude Elmer Black was born Oct. 23, 1924 to James Elmer and Bertha Myrtle Black. He died May 30, 2003 and is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Waterloo, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
