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CLIFTON DENNIS POTTS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 21, 1948 – April 11, 1969
Service recordClifton Dennis Potts, of Raleigh, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Raleigh, Illinois (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 58
- LAWRENCE STEVEN MILLSPrivate First Class · April 11, 1969
- WILLIAM LEE OWEN JRSecond Lieutenant · April 11, 1969
- JOSEPH FLAVIO PAEZCorporal · April 11, 1969
- PETER EDWARD REECESpecialist Five · April 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH FLAVIO PAEZCorporal · Panel 27W, Line 58
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.