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JOHN CLINTON MERRITT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 19, 1945 – March 24, 1971
Service recordJohn Clinton Merritt, of Ocilla, Georgia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 73
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)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- October 19, 1945
- Home of record
- Ocilla, Georgia (Irwin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1971
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 73
- JEROME DON KLEINPrivate First Class · March 24, 1971
- STEVEN MICHAEL LARRABEEChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 24, 1971
- WILLIAM EDWARD NEALSpecialist Four · March 24, 1971
- HERMAN EDWARD PICHONPrivate First Class · March 24, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR WILSON JRSpecialist Five · Panel 4W, Line 75
From Ocilla
- LARRY GENE POWELLMajor · November 22, 1967
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.