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HERMAN LEE MCCLAMB
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 19, 1948 – December 17, 1968
Service recordHerman Lee McClamb, of Four Oaks, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 17, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 36
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Four Oaks, North Carolina (Johnston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 17, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date December 17, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 36W, Line 36
- GRAYSON CRAFTPrivate First Class · December 17, 1968
- THOMAS MARK KUPIECSpecialist Four · December 17, 1968
- ROBERT RAY MASCARENASSpecialist Five · December 17, 1968
- GEORGE WINSTON MORTONSpecialist Four · December 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PHILLIP HENRY ENGLEPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 34
From Four Oaks
- JOHN ROBERT LEEPrivate First Class · September 17, 1966
- DANNY WEST JOHNSONPrivate First Class · August 5, 1968
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.