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CLARENCE CECIL RATLIFF
Major · U.S. Army
December 30, 1925 – July 2, 1968
Service recordClarence Cecil Ratliff, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 39
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
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 30, 1925
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1968
- Age
- 42
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1968; three of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 54W, Line 39
- HENRY ALBERT TIPPINGColonel · July 2, 1968
- RONALD GENE WHITE SRSpecialist Five · July 2, 1968
- JAMES JOSEPH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · July 2, 1968
- ARNOLD ALVIN ADESLance Corporal · July 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM JOHN HAUPERTStaff Sergeant · Panel 54W, Line 36
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 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.