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CLAUDE FRANKLIN VAUGHN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 23, 1944 – August 25, 1968
Service recordClaude Franklin Vaughn, of Mcrae, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 25
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 23, 1944
- Home of record
- Mcrae, Georgia (Telfair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 25, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 25
- THOMAS JAMES WALKERCorporal · August 25, 1968
- JAMES FRANKLIN WATSONSpecialist Four · August 25, 1968
- JAMES BARRINGTON WESTBROOKCaptain · August 25, 1968
- EDWARD JOHN WOODSSpecialist Four · August 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM CHARLES LAWSONSpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 17
- BYRON JOSEPH MITCHELLStaff Sergeant · Panel 46W, Line 17
- DANNY JOE MITCHELLPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 17
- ARDEN GENE SONNENBERGPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 18
- PAUL HENRY PIRKOLAPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 20
- THOMAS EARL RICHEYSergeant First Class · Panel 46W, Line 21
- WILLIAM WAYNE SEAYSergeant · Panel 46W, Line 22
- JERRY LEE SIMMONDSCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 22
- EUGENE TURNERSpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 24
From Mcrae
- LAMAR HORNEPrivate First Class · March 12, 1967
- CULLEN GEORGE STARNES JRMajor · September 29, 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.