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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clarence Andrew Earley.

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CLARENCE ANDREW EARLEY

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 13, 1949 – March 13, 1969

Service record

Clarence Andrew Earley, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1969, in Sa Dec Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 29

Position of Panel 29W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
January 13, 1949
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 13, 1969
Age
20
Province
Sa Dec
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1969; three of them were lost in Sa Dec Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 29

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.