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RICHARD CROSBY CLARK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 29, 1945 – November 18, 1965
Service recordRichard Crosby Clark, of Kankakee, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 100
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- November 29, 1945
- Home of record
- Kankakee, Illinois (Kankakee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 18, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 318 of its members that month.
He died in South Vietnam while the Battle of the Ia Đrăng Valley was under way. In the Ia Đrăng Valley (14–18 November 1965), battalions of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) fought North Vietnamese regulars at Landing Zones X-Ray and Albany — the first major battle between the two armies and the first great test of the helicopter war. The record gives the date and his unit, the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), which fought in the battle, but not the exact place.
Read the history
Also on Panel 3E, Line 100
- RONALD HENRY CHITTUMSergeant · November 18, 1965
- LINDSEY HOUSTON CROWChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 18, 1965
- LOUIS SAM GUTIERREZSergeant · November 18, 1965
- JOHN FREDERICK MCDERMOTTSpecialist Four · November 18, 1965
Same unit, same day
- RONALD HENRY CHITTUMSergeant · Panel 3E, Line 100
- LOUIS SAM GUTIERREZSergeant · Panel 3E, Line 100
From Kankakee
- PATRICK FRANCIS BECKPrivate First Class · August 31, 1965
- ROBERT CHARLES JOHNSONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- GENNARO JOSEPH DECARLOCorporal · August 27, 1967
- DEAN PAUL STPIERRECaptain · May 22, 1968
- CHARLES DONALD JONESPetty Officer First Class · February 19, 1969
- NELSON LEPORT HORCHEM JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
- PHILIP MICHAEL WERBISKIMajor · August 19, 1969
- EDDIE SAM RANDALL JRSpecialist Four · March 15, 1970
- JIMMY ODENEALPrivate First Class · March 12, 1971
- JEROME EDWARD LEROYSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
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.