The Wall › Panel 20W › Illinois › Claude Edward Tabor
CLAUDE EDWARD TABOR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 21, 1950 – July 27, 1969
Service recordClaude Edward Tabor, of Salem, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 27, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 61
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 21, 1950
- Home of record
- Salem, Illinois (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 27, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date July 27, 1969; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 61
- RONALD JAMES SCHARFPrivate First Class · July 27, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWARD SHEENStaff Sergeant · July 27, 1969
- RALPH DORMAN STORMCorporal · July 27, 1969
- CLINTON EUGENE TIBBETTSTechnical Sergeant · July 28, 1969
From Salem
- DALLAS CLYDE YOUNG JRSergeant · May 12, 1966
- WILFORD LYNN DONOHOPrivate First Class · October 5, 1969
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.