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CLIFTON MALONE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 12, 1943 – April 3, 1968
Service recordClifton Malone, of Millington, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 52
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Millington, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 52
- JAMES MINTER LANGFORDSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- LESLIE JOHN LANTOSSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- JAMES MIRACLE JRPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- QUINTEN EMILE MULLEAVEYSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ENOCH BLACKPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 45
- CANDIDO CABRERA-RODRIGUEZSergeant First Class · Panel 47E, Line 46
- JOHN WILLIAM FOXCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 49
- ROGER ALLAN QUINNMajor · Panel 47E, Line 53
From Millington
- MARK FOSTER UDELLPrivate First Class · May 19, 1966
- THOMETT DARTHAN CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · June 5, 1966
- PAUL JOSEPH STRAUSSERPrivate First Class · July 24, 1966
- ROBERT L SMITHSergeant · August 25, 1966
- WILLIAM LARRY EVANSSpecialist Four · June 7, 1967
- FREDDIE JOE KEELEYPrivate First Class · October 24, 1967
- JAMES ELTON ONEALSergeant · November 24, 1967
- LARRY MURDOCKSergeant · March 4, 1969
- ELTON HARROLD ALEXANDERPrivate First Class · September 5, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY YOUNT JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 24, 1970
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.