Calvin Clensay, age 14 was listed as "missing in the performance of his duties on the high seas" according to word received by his mother, Mrs. Francis Way 35 W. Center Street, Beacon NY.  The notification came in a telegram from the Navy Department January 25, 1943

Seaman Calvin Clensay was the first Beacon resident to be declared missing in action. He was serving a a gunners mate. He enlisted in the Navy on June 18 and had been in service a little over seven months.  He was a student of Beacon High School before enlisting. 

Mrs. Way had not heard from her son since November when he his ship was tied up in a Texas port.  He wrote that he had been to Trinidad and Glasgow Scotland but according Navy Department rules of secrecy he would not disclose what ship he was serving on or where it was going.