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CLYDE SAMPSON EVANS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 21, 1949 – May 21, 1969
Service recordClyde Sampson Evans, of Portsmouth, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 65
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Portsmouth, Ohio (Scioto County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 65
- DONNIE BIARUMSpecialist Four · May 19, 1969
- PATRICK WILLIAM DWYERPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- LOUIS EARL FENCEROYPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- GENE THOMAS GIETZENPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- PETER JOHN GLYNNPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE MILTON STUCKWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 24W, Line 72
From Portsmouth
- GLEN THOMAS HOBBSSergeant · March 6, 1968
- GARY NOLAN SHYFirst Lieutenant · March 8, 1968
- STEPHEN EARL CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- WILLIAM LOUIS DEBOSpecialist Four · August 11, 1968
- TED RAY JAMISONPrivate First Class · September 19, 1968
- JERRY RUSSELL HOWERTONCorporal · February 23, 1969
- TIMOTHY PAUL BAUERCorporal · February 26, 1969
- CHARLES RONALD EGGERSSpecialist Four · December 31, 1971
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.