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CHARLES CLARK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 25, 1933 – July 28, 1971
Service recordCharles Clark, of Sumter, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 28, 1971, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 116
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Motor Transport Operator (64C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- June 25, 1933
- Home of record
- Sumter, South Carolina (Sumter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 28, 1971
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Stroke
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date July 28, 1971; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In July 1971, 118 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 116
- GUNTER WILFRIED SCHEUSergeant First Class · July 27, 1971
- ROBERT EUGENE SCHULZESeaman · July 27, 1971
- DOMENIC SMIGLIANISergeant First Class · July 27, 1971
- KEN HARRIS TAKETASergeant · July 27, 1971
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ELLIOTT MURPHYPrivate · Panel 3W, Line 117
- DONALD EUGENE SCOTTStaff Sergeant · Panel 3W, Line 117
- ROBERT LEROY WILLARDSergeant · Panel 3W, Line 117
From Sumter
- ADHERENE LOUIS HAINESSpecialist Four · October 5, 1965
- HAROLD MCRAE SMITHPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- LELAND EMANUEL HAMMONDLance Corporal · October 11, 1966
- ROBERT HENRY STEWARTStaff Sergeant · October 29, 1966
- ROBERT CAIN JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1966
- TERRY LYNN ANTONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- BEN WHITESergeant · July 10, 1967
- DAVID NATHANIEL GREEN JRSecond Lieutenant · July 24, 1967
- WALLACE GOURLEY HYNDS JRColonel · August 2, 1967
- CARL MCFADDEN JRPrivate First Class · March 26, 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.