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JOHN JOSEPH CLARK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 25, 1948 – March 29, 1969
Service recordJohn Joseph Clark, of Manchester, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 79
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Manchester, Tennessee (Coffee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 79
- ROY BRADLEY BOYDSpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
- KENNETH JAMES BRENNERCorporal · March 29, 1969
- JAMES BRADLEY CLAYBAUGHFirst Lieutenant · March 29, 1969
- ROBERT OWEN COLESpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROY BRADLEY BOYDSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 79
- GLENN TEUGIO SHIBATACorporal · Panel 28W, Line 86
From Manchester
- RICHARD ALLEN BRADLEYPrivate First Class · June 19, 1966
- HERMAN RAY FLETCHERPrivate First Class · January 10, 1968
- LEWIS BRACY WILSONPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- JOHN TERRELL WILKINSONFirst Lieutenant · April 3, 1968
- KENNETH WAYNE MARTINSergeant · June 15, 1970
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.