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CLIFTON OLIVER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 16, 1947 – May 16, 1968
Service recordClifton Oliver, of Cayce, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 16, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61E · Line 15
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
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Cayce, South Carolina (Lexington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 61E, Line 15
- WILLIAM DAVID MCCLAINSergeant · May 16, 1968
- ERNEST C MCCRIMMON JRPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- ELMER MASON NANCEFirst Lieutenant · May 16, 1968
- EDWARD LEWIS NIXSpecialist Four · May 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN LEE WOODARDPrivate First Class · Panel 61E, Line 21
From Cayce
- BENJAMIN EDWARD KELLY JRCaptain · August 30, 1967
- BRUCE WESLEY DUDLEY JRPrivate First Class · January 23, 1968
- FAY CLYDE SIMMONS IIILance Corporal · July 3, 1968
- JOHNNIE LEE BRIGMANPrivate · May 29, 1969
- THOMAS MARCELLUS TAYLORSpecialist Four · November 24, 1969
- THOMAS ALAN MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · April 22, 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.