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CLIFFORD RUSSELL CARTER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 25, 1941 – December 13, 1967
Service recordClifford Russell Carter, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 86
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 25, 1941
- Home of record
- Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 31E, Line 86
- DONALD RAY BURGESSPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- GRADY ISIAIAH CARRIKER JRCaptain · December 13, 1967
- THOMAS WAYNE COTTONMajor · December 13, 1967
- MELVIN EUGENE CROSSMANCorporal · December 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN W FITZGERALD JRSergeant First Class · Panel 31E, Line 87
- LUIS MANUEL MARQUEZ-LOPEZSergeant First Class · Panel 31E, Line 88
From Detroit
- SAMUEL EUGENE HURDAirman Third Class · January 3, 1964
- LEO BERT ABRAMOSKICaptain · July 28, 1964
- GEORGE PAUL ZUPANCICCorporal · June 26, 1965
- MARSHALL DANIEL HOLMANPrivate First Class · July 9, 1965
- ELIAS BELL JRCorporal · July 13, 1965
- ARTHUR F HAMMARSTROM JRLieutenant Colonel · July 24, 1965
- JAMES THOMAS CLARKPrivate · August 17, 1965
- BRUCE JAMES HENRICHPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- ROBERT TAGLIONESergeant · August 18, 1965
- MERRILL LAGENE LANTRYCorporal · September 2, 1965
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.