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JAMES GENIUS CLARK
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 9, 1936 – May 25, 1967
Service recordJames Genius Clark, of De Kalb, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 101
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 9, 1936
- Home of record
- De Kalb, Mississippi (Kemper County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 101
- MARTIN CARRANZALance Corporal · May 25, 1967
- VAN CHAFFEEPrivate First Class · May 25, 1967
- ALFRED COBOSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1967
- PETER MICHAEL COONSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HARRY MCCLAINPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 105
- LEONARD KING NUTESpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 105
- ROBERT GARY STATONPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 107
- GARY LEE STYMUSPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 108
- ANDREW SAMUEL WRIGHTPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 109
From De Kalb
- I V BOURRAGESergeant · February 21, 1967
- LATHAN HOUSTONPrivate First Class · December 10, 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.