Max Marshall Plane Victim
Former Sioux Cityan Killed in Florida Collision
Ensign Max Marshall, 20, son of Mrs. Orville Hall of Cleghorn, Iowa and former Sioux Cityan was killed in a plane crash near DeLand, Florida, January 24, 1945. His plane was one of two which collided six miles north of DeLand. The navy department message, which was sent to his mother, stated “due to swampy, wooded terrain of the place where the planes crashed it is impossible to locate either the planes or the men.”
Ensign Marshall was graduated from Cleghorn High School and then came to Sioux City where he was employed for a short time by an automobile company. He attended Kansas State College before he enlisted in the navy in 1943. He received his training in Missouri and California and then went to Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was commissioned and received his wings on October 25, 1944.
Survivors are his mother in Cleghorn and five brothers.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, February 8, 1945 (photo included)
Max Raymond Marshall was born Feb. 12, 1924 to Darius Eustace and Minnie Ethel McFarland Marshall. He died Jan. 24, 1945.
Source: ancestry.com
