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CLAYTON EDWARD SAVOY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 4, 1941 – May 29, 1970
Service recordClayton Edward Savoy, of Orono, Maine, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 29, 1970, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 116
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 4, 1941
- Home of record
- Orono, Maine (Penobscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 29, 1970
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Go Cong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date May 29, 1970; two of them were lost in Go Cong Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 116
- WILLIAM LAWRENCE REYNOLDSFirst Lieutenant · May 28, 1970
- TIMOTEO FRED ROMEROSergeant · May 28, 1970
- ROBERT BROWN ROSHONCorporal · May 28, 1970
- GREGORY WILLIAM SHEELERSergeant · May 28, 1970
Same unit, same day
- DALE REISINGFirst Lieutenant · Panel 10W, Line 118
From Orono
- LARRY JOSEPH NADEAUPrivate · January 2, 1966
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.