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CLARENCE ELVIN SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 26, 1943 – March 20, 1969
Service recordClarence Elvin Smith, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 93
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- February 26, 1943
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 93
- FILEMON SERRANOPrivate First Class · March 20, 1969
- DENNIS ALLEN SMITHCorporal · March 20, 1969
- LARRY DEAN SMITHStaff Sergeant · March 20, 1969
- KARL JOSEPH TASCHEK JRSpecialist Four · March 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FRANK DEPAUL SARACINO JRSergeant · Panel 29W, Line 92
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.