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CLIFFORD W LEATHERS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 19, 1948 – June 21, 1967
Service recordClifford W Leathers JR, of Wright City, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 32
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Wright City, Oklahoma (Mccurtain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 22E, Line 32
- EDGAR LEE MCWETHY JRSpecialist Five · June 21, 1967
- JOHN LOUIS OLSENCorporal · June 21, 1967
- RICHARD GENE OSBORNEPrivate First Class · June 21, 1967
- DARRELL JOHN SPINLERCaptain · June 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JIMMY LEE COOKPrivate · Panel 22E, Line 29
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.