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CLIFFORD D VANARTSDALEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 25, 1949 – May 9, 1968
Service recordClifford D Vanartsdalen, of Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 1
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 25, 1949
- Home of record
- Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 58E, Line 1
- JIM SILAS TRAWSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- EDWARD TYLERPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- DURWOOD WAYNE VERRETTFirst Lieutenant · May 9, 1968
- JIMMY RAY WHELESSCorporal · May 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DURWOOD WAYNE VERRETTFirst Lieutenant · Panel 58E, Line 1
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.