Clancy Lyall
| Clarence Odell "Clancy" Lyall | |
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Clancy Lyall in unit photo taken in Kaprun, Austria 1945
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| Nickname(s) | Clancy |
| Born |
October 14, 1925 Orange, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | March 19, 2012 (aged 86) Leonardtown, Maryland, U.S. |
| Place of burial | Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Great Mills, Maryland |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1942–1959 |
| Rank |
 Master Sergeant
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| Unit | Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division |
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| Relations |
Isabel Lyall (2nd wife from 1971 to 2012) Violet M Spence (1st wife from 1946 to 1971) |
Isabel Lyall (2nd wife from 1971 to 2012)
Clarence Odell “Clancy” Lyall (October 14, 1925 – March 19, 2012) served with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II. This unit would be popularized in the mini-series Band of Brothers based on the book by the same name.
Clancy later served in the 82nd Airborne Division in post-war Germany and in 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team[1] – The Rakkasans – in the Korean War. He also served in Indochina.
Clancy Lyall was born in Orange, Texas. His father, Arthur Edward Lyall, who worked on ships transporting oil from the United States to Scotland, was a Scot. His mother, Beulah, was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma. His father met his mother on a trip to the US after wanting to see the native peoples in Oklahoma. They married and Beulah eventually moved to Orange Texas to set up a farm. Clancy was raised for a time with his maternal Grandfather on the reservation while the farm was being built. Once the farm was completed Clancy attended a one-room school and worked on his parents' 120 acre farm in Orange until they moved to Pennsylvania in 1939. In the summers he would also cross the Sabine river to work in Louisiana, earning some money by picking Spanish moss for use as mattress batting. The skills he learned from the Cajuns in how to survive in the swamps would prove useful in his later military career as did the hunting and tracking skills taught to him by his Cherokee grandfather. Clancy also hunted cougar to bring in extra money for the family.
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