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CLYDE WALTER KLINGENSMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 9, 1947 – November 4, 1967
Service recordClyde Walter Klingensmith, of Kaylor, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Kaylor, Pennsylvania (Armstrong County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 4, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 20
- RONALD JEROME BRITTCorporal · November 4, 1967
- ROBERT CLARENCE HOWARDStaff Sergeant · November 4, 1967
- NICKLOS BYRON JANESSergeant · November 4, 1967
- ROBERT ALAN LOVELACEFirst Sergeant · November 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KEVIN GREGORY FLAHERTYSecond Lieutenant · Panel 29E, Line 19
- RONALD JEROME BRITTCorporal · Panel 29E, Line 20
- JERRY LEE WIGGINSCorporal · Panel 29E, Line 23
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.