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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clarence Dardar JR.

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CLARENCE DARDAR JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 13, 1947 – November 24, 1967

Service record

Clarence Dardar JR, of Morgan City, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 76

Position of Panel 30E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 13, 1947
Home of record
Morgan City, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1967
Age
19
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 76

Same unit, same day

From Morgan City

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.