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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clifford Martin Kuhn.

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CLIFFORD MARTIN KUHN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 13, 1946 – November 21, 1968

Service record

Clifford Martin Kuhn, of Ft Wayne, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 38W · Line 27

Position of Panel 38W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Still Photographic Specialist (84B)
Unit (as recorded)
92 FIELD FORCE
Born
December 13, 1946
Home of record
Ft Wayne, Indiana (Allen County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 38W, Line 27

From Ft Wayne

All 65 names from Ft Wayne →

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.