Name:
Clarence M. Wright
Rank:
Private
Serial Number:
20642281
Unit:
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
Date of Death:
1944-06-06
State:
Kentucky
Cemetery:
Clarence Smith Cemetery, Jeptha, Kentucky
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Pvt Clarence M. Wright, member of the 3/506th Parachute Regiment, took off from Station 463 in Exeter, Devon, UK to drop at 0140 over Albany. The C-47 and its paratroopers were nicknamed Chalk 15, one of three aircraft designated to carry additional munitions and TNT in wing loads. The plane did not make it, shot down by flak at dawn on D-Day which ignited the TNT and sent it spiraling down into the French countryside. His body was repatriated and buried in a private Kentucky cemetery.