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DORIS WAYNE CLARK
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 21, 1939 – May 15, 1968
Service recordDoris Wayne Clark, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 20
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- April 21, 1939
- Home of record
- Tuscumbia, Alabama (Colbert County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 20
- ROBERT HOWARD BYRNESCorporal · May 15, 1968
- DAVID LAVERN CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- WILLIAM CHAPMAN JRLance Corporal · May 15, 1968
- CHARLES ALFRED COPEPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
From Tuscumbia
- JOE EDWARD JOHNSONSergeant · July 3, 1966
- RICHARD S JOHNSON JRSecond Lieutenant · March 26, 1967
- DANNY WAYNE PACEPrivate · July 29, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY KINGFirst Lieutenant · January 25, 1968
- STEVIE TAYLORPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- ALLEN LOUIS JOHNSONLieutenant Colonel · December 28, 1972
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.