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WALTER CLAY BLANTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 31, 1947 – September 28, 1968
Service recordWalter Clay Blanton, of Stoutsville, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 28, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 34
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Stoutsville, Ohio (Fairfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 34
- JOHN ALLEN WOODSergeant · September 27, 1968
- BRADFORD DWAIN WRIGHTSergeant · September 27, 1968
- GARY DEAN COLLINSSeaman · September 28, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS DECKER JRSpecialist Four · September 28, 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.