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1st Lt Paul C. Wiley

First Lieutenant
Paul C. Wiley

First Lieutenant Paul C. Wiley

Paul Clifton Wiley was born on December 16, 1913, in Foxcroft, Maine to Alice Vina Coy (1878–1930) and Frederick Frank Wiley (1875–1959).

Paul C. Wiley entered the service as a draftee (#31000317) on January 16, 1941 at Bangor, Maine. He married on September 18, 1942 with Margaret D Seyford. He became an officer (#O-1306922) at an unknown moment in time between 1941 and 1944. By 1944 he had promoted to 1st Lieutenant and was assigned to D Company, 329th Infantry Regiment as a Platoon Leader. The Morning Report from July 5, 1944 listed Wiley, Paul C. 1st Lt. as from duty to hospital LWA. The Morning Report from October 4, 1944 him as MIA on September 28, 1944. He was a POW at Oflag 64 which was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers located at Szubin a few miles south of Bydgoszcz, in Pomorze, Poland. It was probably the only German POW camp set up exclusively for U.S. Army ground component officers. For his service he was awarded, among other decorations, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart Medal.

He survived his ordeal and stayed in the Army until his retirement on May 4, 1961. Paul Clifton Wiley died on February 9, 2007, in Burbank, California, when he was 93 years old.