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CLAYTON CHARLES KEMP JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 9, 1947 – January 12, 1967
Service recordClayton Charles Kemp JR, of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 12, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 17
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Asw Technician (AX)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USS BENNINGTON CV 20
- Born
- October 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Wheat Ridge, Colorado (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USS BENNINGTON CV 20”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 14E, Line 17
- CHARLES D MAXWELLMaster Sergeant · January 12, 1967
- BILLY W MCKEELStaff Sergeant · January 12, 1967
- WAYNE CONRAD REINECKEPetty Officer Third Class · January 12, 1967
- RENE REYNOSOSpecialist Four · January 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE CONRAD REINECKEPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 14E, Line 17
From Wheat Ridge
- DANIEL LEE FIELDSPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
- JAMES BRYAN ELDER JRPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- ARMAND RENE THOUVENELLPrivate First Class · May 29, 1967
- CHARLES HERBERT NEEL JRSecond Lieutenant · April 5, 1968
- ROY DOUGLAS HURLBERTCorporal · April 16, 1968
- KURT MUELLER JRPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
- JACK ALLEN GARNESSergeant · October 30, 1971
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.