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CLYDE BENJAMIN TATNALL
First Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 27, 1926 – February 20, 1970
Service recordClyde Benjamin Tatnall, of Blackshear, Georgia, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1970, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 38
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. Army
- Rank
- First Sergeant (1SG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 8 FLD HOSP 43 MED GRP 44 MED BDE
- Born
- September 27, 1926
- Home of record
- Blackshear, Georgia (Pierce County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1970
- Age
- 43
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1970; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HHC 8 FLD HOSP 43 MED GRP 44 MED BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13W, Line 38
- THOMAS ALAN PORTERCorporal · February 20, 1970
- DAVID ALAN ROGERSSergeant · February 20, 1970
- CLYDE DEAN ROOTPrivate First Class · February 20, 1970
- JAMES HAROLD WAULK JRCorporal · February 20, 1970
Same unit, same day
- FLOYD RAY JOHNSONPrivate · Panel 13W, Line 36
From Blackshear
- DAVID BRANTLEY ALTMANSpecialist Four · October 6, 1967
- JAMES DONALD GRIFFINWarrant Officer 1 · May 31, 1970
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.