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EDGAR CLAY SPENCE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 29, 1948 – February 29, 1968
Service recordEdgar Clay Spence, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 29, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 10
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968; five of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 232 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 10
- JERROLD PATRICK SMITHPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- KENNETH RAY STEPHENSONSpecialist Five · February 29, 1968
- SAMUEL KAY STEWARTPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- GILBERT THIBEAULTPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE WESLEY DEJARNETTSpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 3
- FREDERICK L MARTINPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 7
- CEIZHAR VALE PAGCALIUAGANPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 8
- LUIA RODGERSPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 9
From Baton Rouge
- THOMAS MOOREChief Master Sergeant · October 31, 1965
- GEORGE CARLTON MCCLEARYColonel · November 5, 1965
- LARRY NELSONSpecialist Four · January 19, 1966
- PHILLIP HEASE HOLMES JRMajor · June 8, 1966
- WALTER LOUIS WELLSSpecialist Four · September 22, 1966
- CARROLL GENE HOGEMANCaptain · November 26, 1966
- WILLIE GRANT JRSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- LEROY JOHN OLIVER KLINGPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- WILLIAM BRIAN HAYSCorporal · November 30, 1967
- THOMAS DALTON BABIN JRFirst Lieutenant · January 4, 1968
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.