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Clarence Morris enlisted at Fort Thomas Newport, Kentucky on 13 January 1942.

On 6 June 1944, B and C Company with DD tanks were launched from about 6,000 yards offshore, which was considerably further out than originally planned, and in rougher seas than those in which the unit had trained, resulting in the loss of 27 of the 32 DD tanks, who sunk. Only two of the launched DD tanks reached the beach; another three were carried ashore when their LCT was unable to lower its ramp at sea. By the end of D-Day, the battalion had three combat ready tanks; 48 had either been sunk or destroyed in combat. Personnel losses were nearly as high, with 45 men killed and another 60 wounded during the day's action.

T/5 Morris was killed in action that day, probably by drowning and his body later washed ashore and was initially buried in a local cemetery.

After the recovery from the local cemetery he was reburied in the U.S Temporary Cemetery in Champigneul, France. When this cemetery was closed he was reburied at the American War Cemetery of Epinal.