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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lionel Timothy Clover.

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LIONEL TIMOTHY CLOVER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 10, 1947 – May 22, 1968

Service record

Lionel Timothy Clover, of College Park, Maryland, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 65E · Line 6

Position of Panel 65E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Radio Teletype Operator (05C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
January 10, 1947
Home of record
College Park, Maryland (Prince George's County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 22, 1968
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 65E, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From College Park

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.