Paul Leaman Clark

Paul Clark, who served as a fireman in the United States Coast Guard.
Clark was staffing a landing boat during a large assault on a beach in French North Africa, during World War II, when the craft's two other crew members (Richard Bucheit of St. Marys, Pennsylvania and Donald LaRue of Hacketstown, New Jersey) were wounded by a Luftwaffe fighter. Thanks to the heroic act of Paul Clark and another Coast Guardsman and excellent medical care, Richard Bucheit and his wife Rita (Wilhelm) raised five children. Bucheit died in 1984 at the age of 68.
Clark was awarded a Navy Cross.
Since 2010 the Coast Guard has annually awarded a deserving boat engineer an award named after Clark.
USCGC Paul Clark
In 2010 when the Coast Guard decided that all the new Sentinel class cutters would be named after Coast Guard personnel who had been recognized for their heroism, and Clark was one of those to be honored.<ref nameDaily2014-04-01/><ref nameUscgHeroes2010-10-17/>
The sixth cutter in the class will be named the . She will be homeported in Miami Florida, with the other first five cutters to be delivered.

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