• Feb. 18, 1924 – April 14, 1945
• Springville, Tennessee
• UT Junior College – 1941-1943
• Pfc – Army 
• Co E, 85th Mtn Inf Reg, 10th Mtn Div. KIA at Serre D’Aiano, Italy
  • 2nd Battalion
  • Final pushes before the German army surrendered in Italy on May 2nd 
• Popular Grove Cemetery in Henry County, Tennessee

Warren Athol Clendenin (Feb. 18, 1924 – April 14, 1945) was born in Springville, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee’s Junior College at Martin from 1941 until he entered service with the United States Army in 1943. Clendenin was specially trained at the Army’s Mountain Training Center (MTC) at the newly formed Camp Hale near Leadville, Colorado. There, he was ranked as a Private First Class and assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment in the 2nd Battalion’s Company E. The 10th Mountain Division became the Alpine combat specialist of the US Army and was trained using specialized winter gear that included ski-borne combat. PFC Clendenin was deployed to the European Theater when the 10th Mountain Division was sent to Italy in 1944. He was killed in action on April 14, 1945, while fighting at Serre D’Aiano, Italy, on Monte della Spe in the final battles before the German army surrendered in Italy on May 2nd. PFC Warren A. Clendenin is buried at Popular Grove Cemetery in Henry County, Tennessee.