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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Milo Dean Clements.

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MILO DEAN CLEMENTS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 30, 1948 – March 9, 1969

Service record

Milo Dean Clements, of Blair, Nebraska, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 86

Position of Panel 30W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 30, 1948
Home of record
Blair, Nebraska (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 9, 1969
Age
20
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

72 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 86

Same unit, same day

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.