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CLARENCE WILLIS OBIE III
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
June 15, 1947 – December 22, 1967
Service recordClarence Willis Obie III, of Staunton, Virginia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 22, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 46
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
- Unit (as recorded)
- M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- June 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Staunton, Virginia (Staunton (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 22, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 46
- LARRY PAUL BLACKPrivate First Class · December 22, 1967
- CHARLES C PETERSONFirst Lieutenant · December 22, 1967
- TIMOTHY HOWARD RINEHARTCorporal · December 22, 1967
- THOMAS DALE ROBINSONPrivate First Class · December 22, 1967
From Staunton
- WOODROW MELVIN FITZGERALDCaptain · October 24, 1963
- DWIGHT POLLARD BOWLESMajor · November 3, 1965
- CHARLES KENNETH MORAN JRLieutenant · February 25, 1965
- JERRY HOGUE HEIZERPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
- THOMAS JOSEPH RICHARDS JRCorporal · May 10, 1968
- DENHAM A WHITESELL JRLance Corporal · December 2, 1968
- VICTOR LEE ELLINGERFirst Lieutenant · November 24, 1970
- FRANKLIN U BRECKENRIDGESpecialist Four · November 28, 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.