Rank: Private First Class
Unit: L Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 24-Jan-1949
Hometown: Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Married to Gloria J. Klotz
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 5-Mar-1969
Start of tour: 3-Aug-1969
Incident date: 1-Oct-1969
Date of casualty: 1-Oct-1969
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Craig Gordon Klotz was killed while driver of a military vehicle on a combat operation when the area came under attack by a hostile force. / Driver of tank on ambush patrol. Came under hostile small arms fire.
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 585 761
Place of interment: Hope Cemetery, Hecktown, Pennsylvania, USA
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