Wyman Kennedy Clark
Rank: Captain
Branch: Army
UT Major/Affiliation: Liberal Arts – 1942
Hometown: Knoxville, TN
- March 20, 1918 – Nov. 18, 1944
- From Knoxville, TN
- Liberal Arts – 1942
- Captain – Army
- KIA, Germany. 22nd Inf Reg, 4th Inf Div. D-Day veteran. Silver Star and Bronze Star recipient.
- Wounded in St. Lo, France
- Hürtgen Forest east of Zweifall, Germany
- Highland Memorial Cemetery in Knoxville, TN
Wyman Kennedy Clark (March 20, 1918 – Nov. 18, 1944) was from Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Liberal Arts in 1942 before entering service with the United States Army. He was first commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant placed as an officer in the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division, but quickly rose to the rank of Captain by the time the 4th Infantry saw action in Europe. Capt. Clark was a commanding officer in the 22nd Infantry Regiment when they landed on Utah Beach on D-Day and fought through Northern France in the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He was wounded at St. Lo, France, but returned to the frontline with the 22nd in the fall of 1944. Capt. Wyman K. Clark was killed in action in the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest on November 18th, 1944. The 22nd Infantry Regiment was tasked with assaulting German positions east of Zweifall, Germany, and with crossing the Roer River during the battle. From November 16th to the start of December, the 22nd Infantry Regiment experienced some of the heaviest fighting seen in the entirety of the war. Many of the survivors and historians relate what the 22nd Infantry underwent to be more aligned with the trench warfare of World War I than elsewhere in Europe during World War II. The 22nd had 85% of its soldiers either killed or wounded in action in this period. Along with Capt. Clark, the 22nd, had nearly every battalion commander and unit leader either killed or wounded. For his gallantry in the European Theater, from Normandy to the Hürtgen Forest, Capt. Wyman K. Clark received both the Bronze Star and the Silver Star. He is buried at Highland Memorial Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee.
