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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clyde Edward Morgan.

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CLYDE EDWARD MORGAN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 2, 1945 – September 16, 1968

Service record

Clyde Edward Morgan, of Greenville, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 16, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 43W · Line 7

Position of Panel 43W 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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
66 MP CO USARV
Born
December 2, 1945
Home of record
Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 16, 1968
Age
22
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 43W, Line 7

From Greenville

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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.