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DOUGLAS FRANK CLEMMONS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 24, 1948 – October 27, 1967
Service recordDouglas Frank Clemmons, of Westville, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 80
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- January 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Westville, Florida (Holmes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 27, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 80
- JESSE NATHANIEL CLAYTONCorporal · October 27, 1967
- LORENZA CONNERCaptain · October 27, 1967
- ROBERT PAUL COOKSpecialist Four · October 27, 1967
- JAMES ALBERT CORESergeant · October 27, 1967
From Westville
- KENNETH JEFFERSON LANDERSPrivate First Class · October 15, 1967
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.