Rank: Private First Class
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Start of tour: 21-Nov-1967
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 12-Mar-1946
Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa
Marital status: Married to Debby S. Clark
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Incident date: 14-May-1968
Date of casualty: 14-May-1968
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire. Individual died from wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Place of interment: IOOF Cemetery, Indianola, Iowa, USA
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