May 8, 1920 – August 30, 1973
Clayton Foster
Personal Information
Birthplace: Satanta, Kansas
Service Information
Branch of Service: Army
Unit: Engineer
Theater of Operation: European
Enlisted / Commissioned: Mar 23, 1942
Honored By: Wife, Nora Mae Foster
Biography
In North Africa he contacted a fever and was delayed 6 months before being sent to England. While preparing for Normandy Beach he was riding a motorcycle and was hit by an army truck. He was brought back to the U.S. in a full body cast to Winter General Hospital in Topeka, the summer of 1944. The rest was History. He met and married Nora Mae Stewart on April 18, 1946.
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