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BRUCE ALAN CLARK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 1, 1947 – January 21, 1969
Service recordBruce Alan Clark, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 21, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 47
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Cumberland, Rhode Island (Providence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 47
- DIEGO AMADORPrivate First Class · January 21, 1969
- VICTOR WALKER BULLARD JRPrivate First Class · January 21, 1969
- JOHN KENNETH CHILDERSSpecialist Five · January 21, 1969
- THOMAS EDWARD DRAUGHNSpecialist Four · January 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ALTON GEORGE GIBSONSergeant · Panel 34W, Line 48
- NORMAN JAMES NOBLESPrivate · Panel 34W, Line 52
From Cumberland
- LAWRENCE BENJAMIN BANEKCorporal · September 27, 1968
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.