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CLYDE OWENBY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 20, 1945 – June 22, 1967
Service recordClyde Owenby, of Hiawassee, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 22, 1967, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 47
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Hiawassee, Georgia (Towns County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 22, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1967; two of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 47
- GEORGE PATTONPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- JOHN PERRY PATTONSergeant · June 22, 1967
- LEONARD BURTON POORESpecialist Four · June 22, 1967
- DANIEL VIRAMONTES VALDEZPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GARY EVANS BEESLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 36
- GENE ELWOOD CALPHMaster Sergeant · Panel 22E, Line 37
- ROBERT ALLEN DAVISPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 38
From Hiawassee
- ERNEST WILLIAM GARRETTSergeant · June 24, 1968
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.