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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clabe Herald JR.

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CLABE HERALD JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 23, 1946 – November 8, 1966

Service record

Clabe Herald JR, of Harrison, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 42

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
B BTRY 3 BN 6 ARTY I FF
Born
February 23, 1946
Home of record
Harrison, Ohio (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 8, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 42

From Harrison

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.