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J C CLARK JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
August 2, 1942 – August 24, 1965
Service recordJ C Clark JR, of Fairfield, Alabama, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 24, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 2, 1942
- Home of record
- Fairfield, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 66
- DARRYL MESSERPrivate First Class · August 23, 1965
- JUSTIN RICE WHITING IVPrivate First Class · August 23, 1965
- WALTER JOHN ZIMMERPrivate First Class · August 23, 1965
- GILBERT SMITH JRSergeant · August 24, 1965
- JAMES JOSEPH VOTAVA JRLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
From Fairfield
- KENNY WAYNE BULLARDPrivate First Class · May 19, 1966
- ROSS ALLEN GASTONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- LAWRENCE RASPBERRYSpecialist Four · June 30, 1969
- RODERICK KENNETH TOLBERTSergeant · June 3, 1970
- RONNIE VAGO ROGERSSpecialist Four · January 5, 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.