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DOUGLAS CLEMENS KLOSE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 14, 1947 – October 27, 1968
Service recordDouglas Clemens Klose, of Jamestown, North Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 27, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 44
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Jamestown, North Dakota (Stutsman County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 44
- NOBLE THOMAS HEADSpecialist Four · October 27, 1968
- LARRY DELANO HOSFORDMajor · October 27, 1968
- ARLEN JOHN HUNTERSpecialist Four · October 27, 1968
- JIMMY RUSSELL LIPECorporal · October 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EARL CANNONSergeant · Panel 40W, Line 41
From Jamestown
- FRED WALTER JANSONIUSPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- LESLIE LOUIS CARTERPetty Officer First Class · July 1, 1968
- LEON DAVID COXStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1969
- WESLEY ERWIN MUELLERSpecialist Four · July 25, 1969
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.