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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Richard Clark.

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TERRY RICHARD CLARK

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

June 18, 1946 – November 19, 1967

Service record

Terry Richard Clark, of Richmond, Indiana, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 23

Position of Panel 30E 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 18, 1946
Home of record
Richmond, Indiana (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 19, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

77 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 23

Same unit, same day

From Richmond

All 30 names from Richmond →

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.