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ROBERT LEOPOLD CLUKEY JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 3, 1946 – June 17, 1967
Service recordRobert Leopold Clukey JR, of Waterville, Maine, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 17, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 119
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Waterville, Maine (Kennebec County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 119
- DON LE ROY DEATHRAGE JRSpecialist Four · June 17, 1967
- HERMAN GERALD EBBINGACaptain · June 17, 1967
- RONALD DAVID EDENFIELDPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
- JAMES MELVIN ELCHERTPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
From Waterville
- LAWRENCE VINCENT PETERSStaff Sergeant · April 20, 1966
- CHARLES HOMER MILLSStaff Sergeant · June 30, 1966
- GEORGE BELANGERPrivate First Class · October 24, 1966
- JAMES GERARD POMERLEAUCorporal · April 24, 1967
- ELDON WAYNE SMITHSergeant · October 6, 1968
- RODNEY JEROME DELISLEPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
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.