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JEFFERY MCCLATCHY JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 14, 1946 – March 1, 1968
Service recordJeffery McClatchy JR, of El Campo, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 22
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 14, 1946
- Home of record
- El Campo, Texas (Wharton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 42E, Line 22
- WILLIAM ROBERT MCJIMSEYSpecialist Four · March 1, 1968
- LESLIE EUGENE MURRAYPetty Officer Second Class · March 1, 1968
- DAN LEE NEELYPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- GARY LEE OLIVERPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
From El Campo
- MAURICE W FLOURNOYStaff Sergeant · February 21, 1960
- ALLEN STANLEY MICANSpecialist Four · April 1, 1967
- EDWARD FRANCIS FEE JRHospitalman · July 4, 1967
- LEONARD EDWARD DORNAKFirst Lieutenant · January 8, 1968
- TOMMIE ALLEN ROLFWarrant Officer 1 · May 20, 1968
- CHARLES JEROME MANSKECaptain · May 24, 1969
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.