Marc Larimer graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1912, the same year in which he competed in fencing at the Olympics. During World War I Larimer served as an officer aboard the USS Cummings. He returned to the US from Liverpool, England aboard the SS Baltic in May 1918, arriving in New York. His next assignment was in Cuba, serving on the USS Montgomery, but while there he succumbed to the Spanish flu pandemic, dying from pneumonia aboard ship in Guantanamo Bay.
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