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WALTER LEE CLEMENTS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 28, 1941 – March 13, 1967
Service recordWalter Lee Clements, of Soperton, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 13, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 72
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- December 28, 1941
- Home of record
- Soperton, Georgia (Treutlen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 72
- JERRY LEE BORGENSPrivate First Class · March 13, 1967
- TIMOTHY ROBERT COXLance Corporal · March 13, 1967
- PAUL WINIFORD HARRISPrivate First Class · March 13, 1967
- FRANKLIN DANIEL HITESpecialist Four · March 13, 1967
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.