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CLARENCE VARNADO
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 27, 1941 – February 27, 1967
Service recordClarence Varnado, of Marion, Arkansas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 111
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- November 27, 1941
- Home of record
- Marion, Arkansas (Crittenden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 111
- TRAVIS GARY WALDENSergeant · February 27, 1967
- BRIAN CHARLES WEHNERSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- NEIL STEPHEN WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- RONALD LEE ZEMPELAirman · February 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID ORSON FJERSTADCorporal · Panel 15E, Line 104
- JOHN WILLIAM JACKSONPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 106
- CONRAD FRANCIS STRAUBSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 110
- DONALD THOMAS VANHORNCorporal · Panel 15E, Line 110
From Marion
- RICHARD WILLIAM PERRYSergeant · September 19, 1966
- GARY CURTIS CUPPLESCorporal · June 1, 1967
- PHILLIP RALPH HARDINLance Corporal · May 6, 1970
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.