Notes for Charles Joseph LIGHTFOOT

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Captain Robert Brown
1809 – 1894

Notes for Charles Joseph LIGHTFOOT

Charles was the first of Governor McCarthy's grandchildren and was named after him. He like all first grandchildren he was showered with attention. His baby picture book has pictures and notes for just about every week of his first year. He was big, smart, personable and liked by just about everyone. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1940. He had been in the Naval ROTC and went directly into the Navy. He was captured by the Japanese at Corregidor. Lived through the entire war as a prisoner. Then was killed when a US navy submarine sank the transport on which he and other prisoners were being taken from the Philippines to Japan by the Japanese in the last days of the war.

His obituary from one of the Seattle newspapers follows.

Lieut. Lightfoot Died When Jap Transport Sank

Lieut. (j.g.) Charles Joseph Lightfoot of Seattle, formerly a prisoner of war, has been declared dead as a result of the sinking of a Jap transport on September 7, 1944 in the Philippines, the Navy has notified his mother, Mrs. Virginia M. Lightfoot, 5268 18th Ave. N. E.

Born in Honolulu, the 28 year-old Navy man was a grandson of a former governor of Hawaii. He attended the University of Washington and entered the Navy Supply Corps in 1940, after training in Philadelphia. He went to China in October, 1940 and was stationed on a river gunboat, the Mindanao, which was sunk May 4, 1942. He was taken prisoner at Corregidor.

Surviving besides his ,mother are three brothers. Sergt. O. B. Lightfoot, stationed in Hawaii; James T. Lightfoot, fireman, second class, in the New Hebrides, and Richard M. Lightfoot, employed at the Naval Air Station, Sand Point.

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