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JAMES RICHARD MCCLINTOCK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 26, 1943 – January 31, 1968
Service recordJames Richard McClintock, of Port Orchard, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 27
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Materials Quality Specialists (51G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 69 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- January 26, 1943
- Home of record
- Port Orchard, Washington (Kitsap County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; five of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HHC 69 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Phong Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 27
- JAMES EDWARD MCCUEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JOHN J MCHUGHFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- EDWARD ALTON MCKIMSergeant · January 31, 1968
- EDWARD GRADY MUSEAirman First Class · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GHALIB AHMED ABDULLAHCorporal · Panel 35E, Line 84
- EDWARD MCNALLYSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 26
From Port Orchard
- JOSEPH ROBERT RIEBLILance Corporal · July 7, 1967
- DARREL ZANE WRIGHTSergeant · February 6, 1968
- ROBERT ALAN JACKSONSergeant · February 17, 1968
- GUY NORTH BERNARDLance Corporal · March 2, 1968
- DONALD DALE HAWKINSSergeant · August 19, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE TURNERStaff Sergeant · September 18, 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.