Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....McCartney, Forrest Edward July 11, 1943
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Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 16 July 1943
MCCARTNEY, Forrest Edward
[Husband of Juanita L. nee Playforth]
30 July 1914 to 11 July 1943
28y 11m 12d
Canfield Sailor Killed in Action
Mrs. Lilly Renkenberger, Lisbon street, was notified Wednesday by the War 
Department that her son Fireman First class Forrest Edward McCartney had been 
killed in action while in the service of his country. No Details of his death 
were given. Forrest enlisted in the Navy in March of last year, received his 
early training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and inter studied Diesel 
engineering at New York and Boston, receiving a rating of fireman – first 
class before he left for overseas duty in March. He was last heard from early 
this month. Born in Hyshare, Mont., July 30, 1914, a son of Mrs. Lilly 
McCartney Renkenberger and the late Forrest McCartney, he came here with his 
parents when a small boy, returning to Montana at the age of 17, and for a 
considerable time was employed there on a ranch. Surviving are his wife, the 
former Juanita L. Playforth, whom he married May 25, 1942, his mother; a 
sister, Mrs. Joseph Greasel, a half-sister, Miss Norma Renkenberger, all of 
this place, and a brother, Herbert, of Youngstown. Another brother, John, 
preceded him in death.
Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 10 Sep 1943
Learns Details of Son’s Death
Through a shipmate, Yeoman 3/c John E. Turner of Cleveland, Mrs. Lilly 
Renkenberger has learned the details of the death of her son, Fireman 1/c 
Forrest Edward McCartney, which occurred when his ship was bombed off the 
coast of Sicily, July 11. McCartney’s ship, the sentinel, a 220-foot 
minesweeper, was taking part in landing operations off the coast of Licata, 
Sicily, when the invasion was beginning, and Forrest volunteered to serve as a 
member of a gun crew, serving as gun-trainer on the number one gun – a 3-inch 
piece. Axis flyers dropped fragmentation bombs on the Sentinel, one striking 
near McCartney’s gun, killing him and several other men instantly. Other hits 
soon put the vessel out of control and the remainder of the crew were taken 
off to an American escort ship, just a few minutes before the sentinel sank. 


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