Missing information?

Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?

Submit

Personal info

Full name
MC ALLISTER, Clarence William
Date of birth
5 July 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O1328618
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
311th Infantry Regiment,
78th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 March 1945
Place of death
Near Honnef, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 5 73

Immediate family

Members
William C. Mc Allister (father)
Virgie Mc Allister (mother)
Vance Mc Allister (brother)
Harry Mc Allister (brother)
Virginia Mc Allister (sister)
Anna (Scalise) Mc Allister (wife)
Virginia M. Mc Allister (daughter)

More information

Before the war, Clarence W. Mc Allister served with Coast Artillery of the Regular Army for three years at Fort Monroe, Virginia. After his discharge in 1936, he was employed at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in Pittsburgh.

He reenterred on 15 February 1941. After training at Coyne Radio School in Chicago and at several other places, he was gradudated from Officers Candidate School on 6 December 1944. He was sent overseas a month later.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Records / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1920/1930 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet, The Altoona Mirror - 4 April 1945