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CLIFFORD LEE SWISHER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 27, 1948 – March 22, 1969
Service recordClifford Lee Swisher, of Cypress, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 22, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 15
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Cypress, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 15
- CLYDE STANLEY SWEATTSpecialist Four · March 22, 1969
- MOISES TAPIASergeant · March 22, 1969
- ROBERT CHARLES TEDFORDSpecialist Five · March 22, 1969
- DAVID CLARK VALLANCESergeant · March 22, 1969
From Cypress
- JACK DENNIS HANGERSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- CHARLES CURTIS CLENDENENSpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
- PETER QUIRINUS BOETS JRCorporal · May 13, 1967
- DAVID MARLOW TOMLINSONPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- JACKIE ANDREW CARRANOSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- PATRICK DENNIS FAYSpecialist Four · September 10, 1968
- STEVEN PAUL SORICKPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
- NORBERT OTTO WERNERSergeant · October 31, 1968
- JOHN PHILLIP COOKCorporal · February 18, 1969
- ROBERT W ROSSSergeant · May 13, 1975
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.