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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Lee Clark.

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GARY LEE CLARK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 19, 1949 – June 24, 1969

Service record

Gary Lee Clark, of Seymour, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 6

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
December 19, 1949
Home of record
Seymour, Indiana (Jackson County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 24, 1969
Age
19
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1969; six of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From Seymour

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.