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HARRY CORNELIUS VANDERKLOOT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 14, 1947 – November 30, 1967
Service recordHarry Cornelius Vanderkloot, of Antioch, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 18
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Antioch, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 18
- LAFFEY FRANKLIN STRAITPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JIMMY LEE WARDPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- SAM DIXON WARLICKSecond Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
- WILMER WATSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
From Antioch
- EDWARD CHARLES GOELZPrivate First Class · July 26, 1967
- JIMMY CHARLES BOWERSpecialist Four · January 13, 1969
- ROBERT JAMES HAWKSPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- CHARLES G TAUBERMAN SRStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1971
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.