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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Grant Leroy Clark.

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GRANT LEROY CLARK

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

September 21, 1945 – October 30, 1965

Service record

Grant Leroy Clark, of Pocatello, Idaho, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 30, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 5

Position of Panel 3E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Ground Radar Repairman (5931)
Born
September 21, 1945
Home of record
Pocatello, Idaho (Bannock County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 30, 1965
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1965; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 5

From Pocatello

All 15 names from Pocatello →

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.