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CLAUDE WILLIAM MCBRIDE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 19, 1936 – August 23, 1963
Service recordClaude William McBride, of Salem, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 23, 1963, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 27
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 19, 1936
- Home of record
- Salem, New Jersey (Salem County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1963
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1963. In August 1963, 10 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 27
- EDWARD BERNARD CRIBBCaptain · August 26, 1963
- ARCHIE SHERROD BOWENAirman Second Class · August 30, 1963
- TIMOTHY MICHAEL LANGFirst Lieutenant · August 30, 1963
- JAMES EDWARD WENZELCaptain · August 30, 1963
From Salem
- CHARLES FREDRICK COINERPrivate First Class · March 3, 1966
- DONALD LEE LEHEWSergeant First Class · August 26, 1966
- ALEXANDER COLES JRHospitalman · January 23, 1967
- DONALD LEE HUNTERPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- ROBERT THOMAS FERRELLIPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- THOMAS HUBERT JONESPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
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.