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CLIFTON FRED WAGNER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 15, 1949 – March 8, 1969
Service recordClifton Fred Wagner, of St Helens, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 83
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 15, 1949
- Home of record
- St Helens, Oregon (Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 83
- HECTOR MANUEL VEGA-DIAZSpecialist Four · March 8, 1969
- JACK ELWIN WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · March 8, 1969
- ROY DEAN WIMMERPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
- ROY GLENN ZUFELTSpecialist Four · March 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LARRY DONALD BROWNSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 72
- WILLIE LEE BROWN JRCorporal · Panel 30W, Line 72
- DANNY LEROY HANSONSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 75
From St Helens
- WILLIAM ALBERT RIDENOURSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
- TERRY LEWIS GUMPSpecialist Four · April 13, 1969
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.