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BRUCE EDWARD CLOUGH
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 12, 1949 – August 2, 1968
Service recordBruce Edward Clough, of Magnolia, Delaware, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 2, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 48
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Magnolia, Delaware (Kent County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 2, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date August 2, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 48
- RONALD CHARLES BAKEWELLPrivate First Class · August 2, 1968
- RONALD NORMAN BLOOMSergeant · August 2, 1968
- RICHARD IRVING BORNHEIMERSpecialist Five · August 2, 1968
- DAVID CHAUNCEY CRANELance Corporal · August 2, 1968
From Magnolia
- LAWRENCE EDWARD HITCHENSPrivate First Class · May 17, 1969
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.