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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 Leroy Casto.

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CLARENCE LEROY CASTO

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 31, 1935 – November 13, 1966

Service record

Clarence Leroy Casto, of Jefferson, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 66

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 31, 1935
Home of record
Jefferson, Ohio (Ashtabula County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 13, 1966
Age
31
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 66

Same unit, same day

From Jefferson

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.