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JOSEPH CLERKIN
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
March 29, 1937 – April 10, 1969
Service recordJoseph Clerkin, of Central Islip, New York, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 10, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 48
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Signalman (SM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- March 29, 1937
- Home of record
- Central Islip, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1969
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1969; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 48
- GEORGE ALBERT F DASHO JRSpecialist Four · April 10, 1969
- WILLIAM JOHN DAUBERTSpecialist Four · April 10, 1969
- GERALD ANTHONY DECKERSpecialist Five · April 10, 1969
- DWIGHT MONTGOMERY DURHAMSergeant · April 10, 1969
From Central Islip
- THOMAS FRANCIS DREWSergeant · May 29, 1967
- RONALD T STOKESSergeant · December 16, 1967
- MICHAEL G DONOVAN IIISpecialist Four · January 21, 1968
- MICHAEL CANDIDO RUSSOPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- GERALD MATTERACorporal · June 6, 1968
- JOHN JAMES KEDENBURGSpecialist Five · June 14, 1968
- RAYMOND BERT KYZERPrivate First Class · November 22, 1968
- PAUL CHARLES RUDYSpecialist Four · February 2, 1969
- FRANK W BOSSONGPrivate First Class · March 4, 1969
- WILLIAM CURTIS WILLIAMSONCorporal · March 30, 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.