Burton Clinton Smith

Military
media-47522.jpeg UPL 47522 1LT Burton C. Smith (left)
1LT Peter N. Beet (right)
Both pilots with the 47th BG - 97th BS - 12th AF
Beet was KIA on 6 July 1943

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Object Number - UPL 47522 - 1LT Burton C. Smith (left) 1LT Peter N. Beet (right) Both pilots with the 47th BG - 97th BS - 12th AF Beet was KIA on 6 July 1943

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Units served with

A-26 Invaders, including (serial number 43-22575) of the 47th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force lined up in Italy.

47th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

97th Bomb Squadron

  • Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
  • Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

Ta Kali

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: RAF Ta Kali, Ta Qali

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Cowpens, SC 11 September 1918
Greenville, SC 16 October 1940 109 East Washington Road Worked for Burroughs Adding Machine Company

Enlisted

Fort Jackson, SC 7 November 1941

Died

Waynesville, NC 17 November 2015 He was the son of the late William Clinton and Bertha Louise Porter Smith. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret "Bobbie" Martin Smith, who died in 1996, and brothers and sisters, John Porter Smith, Martha Frances Smith, Doris Smith Giles, Mendel Hoke Smith, William Edgar Smith, Bertha Louise Smith Cain (twin sister) and Elizabeth Smith Hadden. He graduated from Furman University in 1939. Clint served as a Lieutenant in the US Army Air Corp and as Captain in the US Army Air Force during World War II, receiving the Silver Star, Purple Heart and Air Medal. He was a member of Cruso United Methodist Church. Clint is survived by a son, Burton C. Smith, Jr. and his wife, Carol, of Waynesville; grandson, Paul Clinton Robertson Smith (Danielle Fredendall Smith) of Wilson, Wyoming; granddaughter, Margaret Haupt Radford (Kenneth Carter Radford) of Mooresville, North Carolina; sisters-in-law, Marjorie A. Smith and Betty Jane Martin.

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