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CLARENCE ALBERT LATIMER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 27, 1947 – March 30, 1969
Service recordClarence Albert Latimer, of Due West, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 30, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 91
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Due West, South Carolina (Abbeville County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 30, 1969
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1969; six of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 174 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 28W, Line 91
- JOHNNY ALLISON GIBSONSpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
- WILLIAM ANDREW GOULDPrivate First Class · March 30, 1969
- CHARLES LYNN HODGESpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
- NELSON LEPORT HORCHEM JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR MILTON BRADBERRYSergeant First Class · Panel 28W, Line 89
- JAMES CARL FOXPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 90
- JOHNNY ALLISON GIBSONSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 91
- CHARLES MICHAEL LAMBYSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 92
- FRED D SMITHSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 94
From Due West
- WALTER BURNSStaff Sergeant · September 24, 1967
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.