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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Robert Clark.

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DONALD ROBERT CLARK

Captain · U.S. Army

May 2, 1935 – November 9, 1965

Service record

Donald Robert Clark, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 39

Position of Panel 3E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Born
May 2, 1935
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 9, 1965
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 39

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.