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CLIFTON WALKER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 9, 1928 – April 6, 1968
Service recordClifton Walker, of Butler, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 36
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 9, 1928
- Home of record
- Butler, Georgia (Taylor County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1968
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 36
- LAWRENCE ALFRED SWANGUARIMPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- WILLIAM MATT THOMPSONSergeant First Class · April 6, 1968
- DANIEL RAY TWITTYPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- DONALD LEE WALLStaff Sergeant · April 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WALTER EDWARD JOYCE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 28
From Butler
- WILLIAM JOHNNY CARPENTERCorporal · June 1, 1968
- HORACE ANDREWSSpecialist Four · May 5, 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.