Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....COLEMAN, PFC WILLIAM CLAYTON July 5, 1944
WWII US ARMY INFANTRY
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CRISP BOY DIES OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE
PFC WILLIAM CLAYTON COLEMAN,19, DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION ON JULY 5,IN
FRANCE,THE WAR DEPT. HAS NOTIFIED HIS MOTHER,MRS L.C. COLEMAN, OF CORDELE.
 PFC COLEMAN ENTERED SERVICE LAST AUGUST AFTER COMPLETING HIGH SCHOOL AT ARABI. HE
RECEIVED HIS BASIC TRAINING AT CAMP GRUBER, OKLAHOMA, AND WENT OVERSEAS IN MAY. HE
WAS SERVING WITH THE INFANTRY,AND WAS IN THE INVASION OF FRANCE. PFC COLEMAN WAS
MARRIED LAST FEBRUARY TO MISS DOROTHY LUPO, WHO HAS MADE HER HOME IN MACON SINCE HER
HUSBAND HAS BEEN OVERSEAS,HOLDING A POSITION THERE. HER LAST LETTER FROM HIM WAS
RECEIVED TWO WEEKS AGO.
 THE NATURE OF PFC COLEMAN'S WOUNDS WERE NOT DISCLOSED.
 TRAINING IN THE SAME COMPANY AT CAMP GRUDER WITH PFC COLEMAN, WAS ANOTHER CORDELE
BOY WHO WENT OVERSEAS IN THE SAME OUTFIT,PFC ROBERT H. THOMPSON JR. WHO IS NOW
FIGHTING IN THE FOX HOLES OF FRANCE ACCORDING TO A RECENT COMMUNICATION.
 PFC COLEMAN HAS MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE. HE WILL EVER BE MISSED IN HIS HOME TOWN
AND COMMUNITY, BUT MOST OF ALL HIS FAMILY CIRCLE. TO THE BEREAVED ONES,SINCEREST
SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED BY A HOST OF FRIENDS.

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