William Carl Farris was born in 1910 in Tennesse, husband of Elizabeth J. Farris who resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He resided in Oklahoma prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on April 27, 1944 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a mechanic and also as Married. William served as a Private First Class, 138th Engineer Combat Battalion, U.S. Army during World War II.
On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. PFC Farris is now buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France.
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