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CHARLES GUST CLITTY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 13, 1948 – June 11, 1968
Service recordCharles Gust Clitty, of Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 21
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- December 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Spring Lake Park, Minnesota (Anoka County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 21
- LARRY DEAN SWANEYSpecialist Four · June 10, 1968
- WILLIAM EARL WILSONSpecialist Four · June 10, 1968
- MILTON RICHARD ALLERBY JRHospitalman · June 11, 1968
- DANIEL FRANCIS ANDRUSLance Corporal · June 11, 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.