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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clifton Bishop Andrews.

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CLIFTON BISHOP ANDREWS

Major · U.S. Marine Corps

April 21, 1927 – July 25, 1966

Service record

Clifton Bishop Andrews, of Fulton, Alabama, served as a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 25, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 9E · Line 72

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Pilot Vmf (7302)
Born
April 21, 1927
Home of record
Fulton, Alabama (Clarke County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 25, 1966
Age
39
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

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24 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1966; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Fulton

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.