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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clifford Edward Bryan.

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CLIFFORD EDWARD BRYAN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 28, 1947 – January 25, 1968

Service record

Clifford Edward Bryan, of Toledo, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1968, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 29

Position of Panel 35E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 28, 1947
Home of record
Toledo, Ohio (Lucas County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 25, 1968
Age
20
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 29

From Toledo

All 118 names from Toledo →

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.