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DAVID NELSON CLAYTON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 10, 1942 – February 10, 1965
Service recordDavid Nelson Clayton, of Perryville, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Born
- May 10, 1942
- Home of record
- Perryville, Maryland (Cecil County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1965
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1965. In February 1965, 54 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 1E, Line 88
- EVERETT LEE ANDERSONSpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- TOMMY JOE BELCHERSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
- ROBERT JOSEPH BETZPrivate First Class · February 10, 1965
- HORACE CLEVELAND COLLINSSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
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.