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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clive Garth Jeffs.

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CLIVE GARTH JEFFS

Captain · U.S. Air Force

October 21, 1943 – March 12, 1971

Service record

Clive Garth Jeffs, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on March 12, 1971, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 41

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Air Force
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Pilot (1115B)
Unit (as recorded)
614 TFS 35 TFW
Born
October 21, 1943
Home of record
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of loss
March 12, 1971
Province
Tuyen Duc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
First reported
Missing in action
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1971; he was the only one lost in Tuyen Duc Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 41

From Salt Lake City

All 123 names from Salt Lake City →

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.