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CLAUDE EUGENE ELMORE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 1, 1944 – July 12, 1967
Service recordClaude Eugene Elmore, of Bessemer City, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 12, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 57
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- February 1, 1944
- Home of record
- Bessemer City, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 12, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1967; six of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 23E, Line 57
- JACK J COOPERWOOD IIISpecialist Four · July 12, 1967
- RONALD EDWARD CRAINSpecialist Four · July 12, 1967
- JACK PARIS DOVE SRCaptain · July 12, 1967
- ROBERT EDWIN ECHOLSPrivate First Class · July 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES VINCENT AYLORSpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 55
- JACK J COOPERWOOD IIISpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 57
- JEROME GEORGE MCGOVERNSergeant · Panel 23E, Line 61
- LAURENCE G SERSHONPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 63
- BERNIE LEE TATESpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 65
- EDDIE EARL WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 66
From Bessemer City
- REID MCDONALD NANEYPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- CURTIS DWAINE SMITHCorporal · July 28, 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.