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ALBERT CLIFTON FILES JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 26, 1941 – March 25, 1967
Service recordAlbert Clifton Files JR, of Sacramento, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 43
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 26, 1941
- Home of record
- Sacramento, California (Sacramento County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 43
- ROBERT LEE BURDETTEPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- RAYMOND ROGER DEMOEPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- JAMES WILLIAM EVANSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- PEDRO INCARNACION GARCIASergeant · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD EDWARD LEGATECaptain · Panel 17E, Line 45
From Sacramento
- IRVING ALBERT SELFSergeant · May 19, 1964
- LEONARD PAUL HUDSONFirst Lieutenant · November 19, 1964
- CRAIG LOUIS HAGENSergeant · June 10, 1965
- DAVID LEVANT FELTPrivate First Class · August 17, 1965
- RICHARD GRIFFITH PHILBINPrivate First Class · February 2, 1966
- PHILLIP ANTHONY LOTTAPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GILSONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- RICHARD LEE LAWSLieutenant · April 3, 1966
- ROBERT LEE FOSTERPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- GERALD C HUNSBARGER IIIPrivate First Class · June 2, 1966
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.