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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clinton Eugene Tibbetts.

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CLINTON EUGENE TIBBETTS

Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

January 22, 1926 – July 28, 1969

Service record

Clinton Eugene Tibbetts, of Yarmouth, Maine, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on July 28, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 61

Position of Panel 20W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
Service
Regular
Born
January 22, 1926
Home of record
Yarmouth, Maine (Cumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 28, 1969
Age
43
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
Incident
Airplane Crash Hong Kong To Danang Vs

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date July 28, 1969. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 61

From Yarmouth

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.