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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clarence Leroy Palmer.

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CLARENCE LEROY PALMER

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 21, 1930 – November 30, 1967

Service record

Clarence Leroy Palmer, of Villard, Minnesota, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 31E · Line 16

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Water Treatment Specialist (51N)
Born
November 21, 1930
Home of record
Villard, Minnesota (Pope County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1967
Age
37
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

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60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Villard

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.