World War II Honoree

Clarence Hunter Gallman

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Laurens, South Carolina

Honored By

Dorothy Lennon

Relationship

Sister

GRADUATED FROM CLEMSON COLLEGE IN JUNE 1943. A ROTC GRADUATE, HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ARMY AS A CORPORAL IN THE ARMORED INFANTRY AND APPOINTED TO (OCS) TRAINING AT FORT KNOX WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION AS A 2ND LIEUTENANT. RECEIVED ADVANCED TRAINING AT CAMP CHAFFEE WITH THE 16TH ARMORED INFANTRY DIVISION AND SHIPPED OVERSEAS WITH THE 16TH IN AUGUST 1944. HE FOUGHT WITH THE 16TH DIVISION, THIRD ARMY, THROUGH GERMANY AND INTO CZECHOSLOVAKIA UNTIL THE GERMANS SURRENDERED, AND THEY MET THE RUSSIANS ADVANCING FROM THE EAST. JOINED THE 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION AND WAS ASSIGNED DETACHED DUTY IN GERMANY TO ORGANIZE A TRANSPORTATION COMPANY TO TRANSPORT FOOD TO A DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP FOLLOWING THAT ASSIGNMENT HE WAS PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN AND ASSIGNED TO S-3, 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION WITH SPECIFIC DUTIES AS COMMANDER OF THE SS PRISONER OF WAR CAMP IN NUREMBERG DURING THE WAR CRIME TRIALS. HE RECEIVED A BATTLE STAR FOR THE EUROPEAN THEATRE AND WAS DISCHARGED IN JULY 1946.