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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 Logan.

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CLARENCE LOGAN

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 24, 1932 – April 1, 1970

Service record

Clarence Logan, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 70

Position of Panel 12W 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
February 24, 1932
Home of record
Fayetteville, North Carolina (Cumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 1, 1970
Age
38
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Stroke

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1970. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12W, Line 70

Same unit, same day

From Fayetteville

All 84 names from Fayetteville →

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.