- Born
- Died
- Nicknames
- One Lung
- Mac
- Earl McClung was born on April 27, 1923 in Inchelium, Washington, USA. He died on November 27, 2013 in Pueblo West, Colorado, USA.
- American WWII paratrooper; veteran of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
- Native American; he was born and raised on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington state.
- Pueblo West, CO, USA: living in retirement with wife Jean; he also still makes public appearances as a member of E Company.
- Was the first American to enter the Third Reich stronghold of Berchtesgaden upon its capture by Easy Company of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division in 1945.
- The nickname "One Lung" was bestowed upon him in Normandy by fellow E Company soldier Paul Rogers. McClung was sleeping when a lieutenant arrived and asked Rogers who their machine gunner was; Rogers pointed at McClung (who to that point was actually NOT a machine gunner), so the lieutenant left the gun beside the sleeping trooper. Upon waking, McClung was not happy to learn that he had been made the gunner; Rogers made up a rhyming poem about the incident that included the line, "who hung the gun on One Lung McClung?".
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