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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 18681" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sims </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Clifford Chester </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>501 Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (Company D,2 Bn) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Staff Sergeant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">14780953</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21st February 1968 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>25 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Barrancas National Cemetery,Pensacola,Florida Section 29 Site 546 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Port St Joe,Florida</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 18.6.1942 Port St Joe,Florida (as Clifford Pittman) (orphaned at early age)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>adopted son of James and Irene Sims (adopted age 13)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Mary Sims (married 25.12.1961)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated George Washington High School </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>entered service 1961 Jacksonville,Florida</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6 years service</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>501 IR August 1967</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Medal of Honor</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA near Hue,Thua Thien Province,South Vietnam</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 40E Line 56 </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-sims.7826/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/7/7826-228eb5d071043793def75b215f846b95.jpg?1591389127" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-sims-grave.20982/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/20/20982-9ec0f85d23817875256e541a671a7521.jpg?1591400918" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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