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HALQUA DALE CLIBURN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 14, 1949 – June 26, 1970
Service recordHalqua Dale Cliburn, of Lafayette, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 26, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 94
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Tennessee (Macon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 26, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date June 26, 1970; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 53 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 94
- WILLIAM JAMES ENDRESSSergeant · June 26, 1970
- GARY LEE FLECKPrivate First Class · June 26, 1970
- JOHN ANGEL GARZACorporal · June 26, 1970
- CLARENCE GOBER JRPrivate First Class · June 26, 1970
Same unit, same day
- VICTOR BYRON CAMBASStaff Sergeant · Panel 9W, Line 93
- JOHN ANGEL GARZACorporal · Panel 9W, Line 94
- RODNEY LEE KOERNERCorporal · Panel 9W, Line 96
From Lafayette
- JIMMY DALE HESSONSpecialist Four · January 21, 1967
- CHARLES LEE SMALLINGPrivate First Class · April 30, 1970
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.