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FORREST CLIFFORD CHILDS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 11, 1951 – September 10, 1970
Service recordForrest Clifford Childs, of Sulphur, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 52
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- December 11, 1951
- Home of record
- Sulphur, Oklahoma (Sulphur County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 10, 1970
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1970; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 52
- WILSON CAMPBELLCorporal · September 10, 1970
- HERMAN EVANSSpecialist Four · September 10, 1970
- DANIEL F GALLAGHERLance Corporal · September 10, 1970
- RALPH JOSEPH GIORDANOSpecialist Five · September 10, 1970
Same unit, same day
- CALVIN RAY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 7W, Line 54
From Sulphur
- GEORGE LESLIE HORSMAN IIMajor · January 6, 1968
- R C EARL SWEETENSergeant First Class · November 12, 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.