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CLAUDE EUGENE NORTH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 3, 1947 – February 7, 1968
Service recordClaude Eugene North, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 69 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- June 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
136 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 9
- VICTOR CARL NORDSTROMSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- THOMAS TUCKER OLIVERCaptain · February 7, 1968
- ARTURO MARQUEZ ORTIZLance Corporal · February 7, 1968
- LARRY KEITH POWELLPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
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.