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JAMES PHILLIP CLARKE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 15, 1948 – April 18, 1968
Service recordJames Phillip Clarke, of Premont, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 37
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
- August 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Premont, Texas (Jim Wells County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 37
- THOMAS EDWARD CARNEGIEFirst Lieutenant · April 18, 1968
- DEMPSEY CHALMERS JRLance Corporal · April 18, 1968
- SAMUEL PAIGE COWAN JRSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- DAVID WALTER DORRISPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
From Premont
- HECTOR MANUEL GONZALEZLance Corporal · September 2, 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.