Marion Daniel Colvard was born in 1921 in Virginia to Clarence Hobbard Colvard and Katherine Burrow Showalter. He was a graduate of Tennessee High School in Bristol in 1942.
Aviation Machinist Mate 2c Marion Daniel Colvard, US Navy Reserve, died 20 August 1944, and he is remembered on the Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial, New York.
Marion D. Colvard was aboard a P-52 which crashed approximately 25 North of Bermuda while on anti-submarine practice bombing hop. Cause of the crash is unknow. Plane and all hands aboard are missing.
Personnel aboard
VP-207
Lt. (jg) Stanley C. Smith, A-V(N), USNR, 156585
Ensign Joe Billy Langhorn, A-V(N), 315668
Colvard, Marion Daniel, 6402236, AMM2c, V-6, U.S.N.R.
Whitney, Fleming (n), 5603741. AMM3c, V-6, U.S.N.R.
Haire, Will Mitchell, 6591608, S1c, V-6, U.S.N.R.
Taylor, Robert Chester, 6473950, ARM2c (CA), V-6, U.S.N.R.
Cook, Joseph Ellsworth, 6626526, AOM2c (AB), V-6, U.S.N.R.
Hedron 9-2
Noel, James Lloyd, 3169316, AOM2c, U.S.N.
The Bristol Herald Courier, 25 August 1944
Marion Daniel Colvard, aviation mechanic 2-C, U.S.N.R., is missing in the line of duty following a plane crash on August 20, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Colvard, 706 Kentucky avenue, were notified Wednesday in a telegram from the Navy Department. The message said details of the plane crash were lacking and no information was given as to where it occurred. Young Colvard, 23, had been flying aboard a patrol plane and had been stationed in Bermuda in a rest area when his family last heard from him in a letter dated August 19. He had been in service outside the limits of the United States for the past 20 months, but was at home on furlough for ten days beginning July 5. Colvard enlisted in the navy February 15, 1942, three months prior to his graduation at Tennessee high school, and was sent to San Diego, Cal., for his basic training. He was then sent to the Navy Pier in Chicago, Ill., for seven months of schooling and on completion of this course, went to Banana River, Fla., for gunnery instructions. His first assignment outside the American continental borders was in Puerto Rico, where he went in January, 1943, remaining for a period of seven months. He was then sent to Panama where he then sent to Panama where he was stationed until last April, when he was sent to Bermuda. The young flier was a star athlete at Tennessee high school, where he played center on the football team for four years. He won the cup awarded the outstanding player for the year in 1939.
- Rank: Aviation Machinist Mate Second Class
- Date of death: 20 August 1944
- County: Sullivan
- Hometown: Bristol
- Service Branch: Navy
- Division/Assignment: Patrol Bombing Squadron 207
- Conflict: World War II
- Burial/Memorial Location: East Coast Memorial, New York, NY
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XVIII, Middle Panel
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