Burton Clinton Smith
Military
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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
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
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Engle Field
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Ta Kali, Ta Qali
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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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. |