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Personal info

Full name
CLARK, James
Date of birth
1924
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New Jersey
Hometown
Passaic, Passaic County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
12204080
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Squad Leader
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
333rd Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division,
3rd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 November 1944
Place of death
Kogenbroich, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 12 40

Immediate family

Members
John Clark (father)
Cornelia Clark (mother)
John Clark Jr. Clark (brother)
Dorothy Clark (sister)
Lorraine Clark (sister)

More information

S/Sgt James Clark graduated from Passaic High School.

During the night Capt Geizl brought word from battalion that the attack was on again for the next day. The Division Commander had ordered that Würm must be taken "at all costs".

The next line of hedges was infested with Germans. Sgt Hadley and Sgt Clark of the lead platoon were killed by snipers within seconds of each other.

Joe Namey had been close behind Sgt Hadley when he went down. "Flanagan and I rolled him over. He must have been dead before he hit the ground. We stuck his rifle in the mud and put his helmet on it. "Two men crawled over to Clark. He was dead to; hit in the head by a sniper. They died in the town of Kogenbroich.

On onz picture he poses with Emmett L. Tomlinson, who is buried at Margraten Cemetery.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com - Bruce E. Morrell, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census, The men of Company K. The autobiography of a World War II Rifle Company Harold P. Leinbaugh and John D. Campbell

Photo source: Jac Engels, www.wwiimemorial.com, Dorothy Repka, The men of Company K. The autobiography of a World War II Rifle Company Harold P. Leinbaugh and John D. Campbell