Name: Charles Dewitt Clark

Service number: 14039536

Born: 1913, Mississippi

Hometown: Monroe, Arkansas

Family: 

Dewitt Price Clark (father) 

Mittie Ada Robinson (mother)

Estelle Leona Clark (sister) 

Velma Lucile Clark (sister) 

James Coleman Clark (brother) 

Marjorie Catherine Clark (sister) 

Earl Warren Clark (brother) 

James A. Givens (brother)

Essie Lee Davis (wife)

Jimmy Ray (Toby) Clark (son)

Rank: Tec4

Division: 2nd Armored Division

Regiment: 41st Infantry Regiment

Enlistment: 30 December 1940, Montgomery, Alabama

Status: KIA

Date of death: June 9th, 1944

Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Grave Number: Walls of the Missing

Cemetery: American War Cemetery Colleville-sur-Mer

Other information:

Charles was in HQ-Company, 3rd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment. 

Charles was on board LST 1006 that was in the English Channel heading for Normandy when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. This happened in the night of June 9. charles is one of 83 casualties who are still missing.