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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Noel Clemons.

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JAMES NOEL CLEMONS

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 23, 1918 – December 23, 1967

Service record

James Noel Clemons, of Greenville, Mississippi, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 49. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 50

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 23, 1918
Home of record
Greenville, Mississippi (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 23, 1967
Age
49
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1967; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From Greenville

All 21 names from Greenville →

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.