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CLYDE LAWRENCE DEMELLO
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 3, 1949 – February 9, 1968
Service recordClyde Lawrence Demello, of El Cerrito, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 3, 1949
- Home of record
- El Cerrito, California (Contra Costa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 48
- DONALD EDWARD DAWSON JRSergeant · February 9, 1968
- LOYAL BARON DOTYPetty Officer First Class · February 9, 1968
- ARNOLD MAX DURYEAPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- STANTON RICHARD DYKELance Corporal · February 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES J CRAWFORD JRSpecialist Six · Panel 38E, Line 44
- BERNARD JOHN CARONStaff Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 46
- THOMAS NORTONSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 57
- CHARLES EDWARD NOVELSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 57
- JOSEPH WILFRED ROUNSEVILLEFirst Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 60
- BENJAMIN JOHN TEREJKO JRSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 61
- DOUGLAS BUREM WADESecond Lieutenant · Panel 38E, Line 62
- DONALD STEVEN WAITESpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 62
From El Cerrito
- DAVID ALAN HENRYLieutenant (junior grade) · September 19, 1966
- DAVID MIDDLEKAUFFSergeant · December 24, 1967
- BERNARD PAUL BREITENBACHSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE JAMESSergeant · November 30, 1968
- DONALD HAROLD PRATERSpecialist Four · July 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.