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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 Clark Lynwood Marsh.

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CLARK LYNWOOD MARSH

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

July 30, 1928 – September 28, 1967

Service record

Clark Lynwood Marsh, of Pangburn, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 28, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 25

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Pershing Electronic Repairer (21L)
Born
July 30, 1928
Home of record
Pangburn, Arkansas (White County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 28, 1967
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Stroke

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 25

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.