Harold Clark
Service number
14161995
Military unit
A Battery, 80th AA/AT US 82nd Airborne
Address
Washington, Tennessee, USA
Date of birth
22 Feb 1923
Date of death
17 Sep 1944 (21 years old)
Place of birth
Johnson City, Washington, Tennessee, USA
Employment, education or hobbies
Unskilled sawmill worker.
Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 Camp Forrest, Tennessee
Coast Artillery Corps
Army Mine Planter Service
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Family history
Son of George Washington and Bertha Ethel Clark nee McCourry of Johnson City, Tennessee, USA.
Military history
17 September 1944 Pvt Harold Clark, A Battery, 80th AA/AT, 82nd Airborne, US Army. Take off by glider 11.20 RAF Balderton, arrived Groesbeck 13.30-14.00. Killed in action while on a recon patrol that evening. The 80th AA/AT Batteries A and B left RAF Balderton and were in action on landing, capturing 21 German prisoners.
Pvt Clark was buried at Nijmegen before being repatriated to the US and reburied at Nave Street, Elizabethton, Carter, Tennessee.
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Photo of Harold Clark