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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clarence E Nunnery JR.

The Wall › Panel 29W › South Carolina › Clarence E Nunnery JR

CLARENCE E NUNNERY JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 21, 1948 – March 10, 1969

Service record

Clarence E Nunnery JR, of Sumter, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 2

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 21, 1948
Home of record
Sumter, South Carolina (Sumter County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 2

Same unit, same day

From Sumter

All 19 names from Sumter →

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.