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DELL ROSS CLAIBORNE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 25, 1945 – January 8, 1968
Service recordDell Ross Claiborne, of Seminole, Texas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 8, 1968, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 81
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- May 25, 1945
- Home of record
- Seminole, Texas (Gaines County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 81
- FREDDIE ANDRAY BLACKBURNMaster Sergeant · January 8, 1968
- DENVER DEWEY COLBURN JRCaptain · January 8, 1968
- PHELON HERMAN COLECorporal · January 8, 1968
- ROBERT MICHAEL CRAMERMajor · January 8, 1968
From Seminole
- BOB W FORDSergeant · May 13, 1975
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.