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CLYDE DOUGLAS SHELTON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 24, 1947 – June 4, 1967
Service recordClyde Douglas Shelton JR, of Gretna, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 4, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Crane Operator (62F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Gretna, Virginia (Pittsylvania County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 4, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 95 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 57
- JOHN MICHAEL ASTLEYPrivate First Class · June 5, 1967
- JAMES PHILLIP BURNSPrivate First Class · June 5, 1967
- DOUGLAS HOLMAN BUTTERFIELDCaptain · June 5, 1967
- EDWARD A CABRERACorporal · June 5, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONALD LEE PATTERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 58
From Gretna
- DONALD WAYNE ADKINSPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
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.