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CHARLES CURTIS CLENDENEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 20, 1946 – April 18, 1967
Service recordCharles Curtis Clendenen, of Cypress, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 44
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Cypress, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 44
- THOMAS WESTON JRPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- JOSEPH MANUEL ARAGONSergeant First Class · April 18, 1967
- RONALD DWIGHT BRUCESpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
- LEROY BUFORDSergeant · April 18, 1967
From Cypress
- JACK DENNIS HANGERSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- PETER QUIRINUS BOETS JRCorporal · May 13, 1967
- DAVID MARLOW TOMLINSONPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- JACKIE ANDREW CARRANOSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- PATRICK DENNIS FAYSpecialist Four · September 10, 1968
- STEVEN PAUL SORICKPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
- NORBERT OTTO WERNERSergeant · October 31, 1968
- JOHN PHILLIP COOKCorporal · February 18, 1969
- CLIFFORD LEE SWISHERPrivate First Class · March 22, 1969
- ROBERT W ROSSSergeant · May 13, 1975
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.