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RICHARD LEE CLAVERIE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 30, 1944 – March 4, 1968
Service recordRichard Lee Claverie, of Maplewood, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 4, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 62
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 30, 1944
- Home of record
- Maplewood, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 62
- CONRADO FRANCISCO BILDUCIASpecialist Five · March 4, 1968
- JAMES CROCKRANPrivate · March 4, 1968
- DOUGLAS D CROWECaptain · March 4, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD DAVIDSONSergeant · March 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS B ADAMSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 42E, Line 60
- GEORGE ROBERT HUTCHINSONSergeant · Panel 42E, Line 66
- RICHARD JOHNSONSpecialist Five · Panel 42E, Line 67
- JAMES RICHARD TOMLINSONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 1
From Maplewood
- ROBERT JOSEPH GOEDDEPrivate First Class · April 26, 1969
- ANTHONY JOSEPH GALLINASpecialist Four · September 20, 1970
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.