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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Cloud JR.

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JOSEPH CLOUD JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 16, 1945 – November 23, 1967

Service record

Joseph Cloud JR, of Pleasanton, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 69

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
May 16, 1945
Home of record
Pleasanton, California (Alameda County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 23, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 69

Same unit, same day

From Pleasanton

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.