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LONNIE EDWARD CLEMENTS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 13, 1937 – June 20, 1966
Service recordLonnie Edward Clements, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 64
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 13, 1937
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 8E, Line 64
- REINER WALTER BIEROWSKISergeant · June 20, 1966
- HAROLD EDWARD BOETCHERLance Corporal · June 20, 1966
- CURTIS HERMAN BULLARDPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- ROBERT MORRIS COOKEPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DONALD FRANK SCHMIDTCaptain · Panel 8E, Line 69
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.