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TERRY LEE MCCLANAHAN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 19, 1950 – March 6, 1971
Service recordTerry Lee McClanahan, of Chesapeake, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 29
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ah-1 Attack Helicopter Repairer (67Y)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- August 19, 1950
- Home of record
- Chesapeake, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1971; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 29
- WILLIAM LOUIS COFFEYSergeant First Class · March 6, 1971
- WILLIAM PATRICK MILLINERChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 6, 1971
- MORRIS WOODWARD PIERCE JRSpecialist Five · March 6, 1971
- THOMAS AMBROSE TOLEDOSpecialist Four · March 6, 1971
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL WEBSTER ALLEN JRSpecialist Five · Panel 4W, Line 26
- RONALD THOMAS HOFFMANSpecialist Five · Panel 4W, Line 28
- KENNETH HAROLD JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 28
- HARVEY WAYNE WRIGHTSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 30
From Chesapeake
- MICHAEL LINN COOPERLance Corporal · August 24, 1968
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.