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FRANCIS EVERETTE CLARK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 28, 1942 – May 2, 1967
Service recordFrancis Everette Clark, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 11
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 28, 1942
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Long An Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 11
- GARY LEE CHASESpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- ANTONIO GONZALEZ CHAVEZPrivate · May 2, 1967
- CARL JAMES CUEPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
- ABE RICHARD DEYOUNGSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRY JAMES ALLENPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 9
- DANIEL ELLIS BIDDLESpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 9
- JAMES ARTHUR BOONEPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 10
- EUGENE BREEDING JRSergeant · Panel 19E, Line 10
- MARVIN WILLIAM BUSSEYPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 10
- CARL JAMES CUEPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 11
- ABE RICHARD DEYOUNGSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 11
- LARRY DANIEL DRAVESPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 12
- THAROLD WASHINGTON ELLIOTTFirst Sergeant · Panel 19E, Line 12
- EDWARD ANGIANO ESCOBARSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 12
- GERALD MARTIN FARRELLSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 12
- WILLIAM FESKENPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 13
- GEORGE RAY FICKLINSecond Lieutenant · Panel 19E, Line 13
- JOHN ALAN FRICKPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 13
- SAMMY RAY HARRISONPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 13
- LAWRENCE JOHN KEENANSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 15
- JON LAIRD MESSERSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 15
- FRANK DELEON MONTEMAYORPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 15
- MICHEL LEE PUGHSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 15
- JAMES M MCCLUREPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 16
- HAROLD EUGENE MUNDYCorporal · Panel 19E, Line 16
- OTTO PAUL MEYER IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 19E, Line 17
- JAMES PHILLIPS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 19E, Line 17
- JAMES CLIFFORD PHILLIPSStaff Sergeant · Panel 19E, Line 17
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.