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Personal info

Full name
MCNAIR, Clyde Orville
Date of birth
30 March 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33692459
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
25 October 1944
Place of death
Franceau, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 7 26

Immediate family

Members
Edward B. McNair (father)
Margareth M. S. (Thorpe) McNair (mother)
Jeanette N. M. McNair (sister)
Earl McNair (brother)
Ethel M. McNair (sister)
Nellie McNair (sister)
John H. McNair (brother)
Clayton C. McNair (brother)
Lenora H. (Coffman) McNair (wife)

More information

Pfc Clyde O. McNair was a miner before he enlisted in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on 14 August 1943. He was sent overseas in April 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his eye and back.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Augustine Family Tree / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Albert Ledoux, www.newspapers.com – The Daily Courier - 15 January 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.newspapers.com – The Morning Herald - 13 January 1945