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CLAYTON PLOURDE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 8, 1951 – October 1, 1971
Service recordClayton Plourde, of Plainville, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 1, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 33
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
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- August 8, 1951
- Home of record
- Plainville, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 1, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date October 1, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 33
- JAMES VERNON NEWENDORPCaptain · October 1, 1971
- ROBERT ERVIN THOMAS JRSpecialist Four · October 2, 1971
- ROBERT ONNIE GOODMAN JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1971
From Plainville
- DONALD FREDERICK STURGEONSpecialist Four · October 28, 1968
- DOUGLAS EDWARD AYERSSergeant · March 24, 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.