Clyde Willis

Company B 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 07/31/1944

Clyde Lee Willis was born in Snow Creek, Stokes County, North Carolina on October 1, 1914.

Note: In Army and 22nd Infantry records he is listed as Clyde Willis with no middle initial.

He enlisted in the Regular Army Infantry Branch for service in the Philippine Department
on October 3, 1940 at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina. His home of residence was listed
as Mitchell County, North Carolina. He had completed two years of High School and was single
with no dependents. His religion was listed as Protestant.

Private First Class Willis was killed in action in France, during Opeation Cobra, the breakout from Normandy.

Clyde Willis was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
La Cambe Cemetery, Isigny, France and some time later
his remains were returned to the United States where he was
reinterred in North Carolina.

Burial:
Lilly Branch Cemetery
Wing
Mitchell County
North Carolina

Grave marker for Clyde Willis

Photo by C. Keating from the Find A Grave website

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