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DAVID CLAYTON PHELPS
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
July 25, 1946 – September 5, 1967
Service recordDavid Clayton Phelps, of Williamstown, New York, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 5, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 2
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- July 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Williamstown, New York (Oswego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 2
- WILLIAM T MCDANIELSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- CARL DEAN MILLERColonel · September 5, 1967
- DAVID RAYMOND MILLERPrivate · September 5, 1967
- COSMO FRANCIS PACETTAPrivate First Class · September 5, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID SHERMAN STEWARTHospitalman · Panel 26E, Line 4
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.