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JOE CLARENCE SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 11, 1946 – January 27, 1968
Service recordJoe Clarence Smith, of Claxton, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 27, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 51
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Claxton, Georgia (Evans County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 97 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 51
- CHRISTOPHER JOHN TOPPICorporal · January 27, 1968
- FRANK NELSON UZZELLPrivate · January 27, 1968
- RANDY NEAL WARDSpecialist Four · January 27, 1968
- DONALD EDMOND WEEDCorporal · January 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM NEWTON JOHNSONSecond Lieutenant · Panel 35E, Line 47
From Claxton
- CHARLES EDWARD FORDCorporal · July 23, 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.