CLAY, WILLIAM CLIFTON III

REMAINS RETURNED '95  IDENTIFIED 02/25/97

Name: William Clifton Clay III
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/O3
Unit: VMA 211 MAG 12
Date of Birth: 09/29/1941
Home City of Record: HENDERSON NC
Date of Loss: 12 April 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 153819 North  1081129 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4E
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0642

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020

REMARKS:

CACCF/CRASH/PILOT/QUANG TIN 3 YRS United States Marine Corps

REMAINS RETURNED '95  IDENTIFIED 02/25/97

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01/2020

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CAPT WILLIAM CLIFTON CLAY III

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On February 19, 1997, the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Clifton William Clay III, missing from the Vietnam War.

Captain Clay joined the U.S. Marine Corps from North Carolina and was a member of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211. On April 12, 1967, he piloted a A-4E Skyhawk (bureau number 151039) on a close air support mission over Vietnam. Captain Clay's aircraft was downed by enemy fire during the mission, and he died in the crash. An extensive aerial search found no sign of Capt Clay. In June 1995, a Vietnamese citizen handed over a set of remains to a joint U.S. and Vietnamese search team. Forensic analysis identified the remains as those of Capt Clay.

Captain Clay is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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