Richard Wallace Clement
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Branch: Army Air Corps
UT Major/Affiliation: Agriculture - 1941-1943
Hometown: Gibson County, TN
- Feb. 5, 1923 – Oct. 12, 1945
- Agriculture – 1941-1943
- 2nd Lt. Army Air Corps
- 311th Troop Carrier Sq, 349th Troop Carrier Grp. Missing/Lost at sea. C-46 ferrying troops to Iwo Jima from Okinawa.
- Honolulu Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Bowers Chapel Cemetery in Gibson County, Tennessee
Richard Wallace Clement (Feb. 5, 1923 – Oct. 12, 1945) was from Gibson County, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee for Agriculture from 1941 to 1943. He then enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was deployed to the Pacific Theater with the 311th Trooper Carrier Squadron of the 349th Troop Carrier Group, flying C-46s, ferrying troops, and supplies for the war effort. On October 12, 1945, 2nd Lt. Clement’s C-46 was on a mission carrying troops between Iwo Jima and Okinawa when it went missing in the Pacific Ocean, likely from crashing as a result of a catastrophic malfunction midflight. 2nd Lt. Richard W. Clement is memorialized at the Honolulu Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii, and at Bowers Chapel Cemetery in Gibson County, Tennessee.
