About
World War II (1939-1945)
Samuel Augustus Klock was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, on August 23, 1917. By 1940, he was living in the city of Schenectady and working for General Electric.
Samuel enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He was a staff sergeant serving with the 868th Bomb Squadron, 13th Bomb Command, Heavy. Samuel was a passenger on a C-47A flight for a transportation mission from Indonesia to Australia on November 24, 1944, and because the C-47A failed to arrive at its initial destination, it was presumed that they had crashed at sea. He is remembered at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry