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CLETUS DALE TUTTLE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 23, 1941 – June 23, 1968
Service recordCletus Dale Tuttle, of Galatia, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 24
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 23, 1941
- Home of record
- Galatia, Illinois (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 23, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1968; six of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 24
- ERNEST VON SHOMPANYCorporal · June 23, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SHORTERPrivate First Class · June 23, 1968
- DAVID SMITH IISpecialist Four · June 23, 1968
- JAMES B WASHINGTONPrivate · June 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LOUIS GEORGE HEILFirst Lieutenant · Panel 55W, Line 21
- RUPERTO MEDINA-GONZALEZCorporal · Panel 55W, Line 22
- TERRY JOSEPH PATRICK NEILLCorporal · Panel 55W, Line 22
- KENNETH EUGENE NOLANDPrivate First Class · Panel 55W, Line 22
- GEORGE DON SCHILLINGSergeant · Panel 55W, Line 23
- DAVID SMITH IISpecialist Four · Panel 55W, Line 24
- JAMES B WASHINGTONPrivate · Panel 55W, Line 24
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.