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CLIFFORD GARLAND BURCH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 10, 1947 – July 9, 1967
Service recordClifford Garland Burch, of Langley Park, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 38
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Langley Park, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 9, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1967; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 23E, Line 38
- PERRY KINARD JONESLance Corporal · July 8, 1967
- DONALD J REYNOLDSCaptain · July 8, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPH SUSSMEIERPrivate · July 8, 1967
- FRANK JOSEPH BOWLESCorporal · July 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- SZOLTON SIGMOND KLEINPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 36
- WESLEY ROBERT SEXTONPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 39
From Langley Park
- DONALD JAMES MATTARO JRCaptain · May 7, 1968
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.