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RANDY LEE CLIFTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 8, 1952 – December 11, 1971
Service recordRandy Lee Clifton, of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1971, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 85
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 8, 1952
- Home of record
- Lawrenceburg, Tennessee (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1971. In December 1971, 64 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 85
- GEORGE SABLAN MENOCaptain · December 6, 1971
- LEWIS ALAN WALTONWarrant Officer 1 · December 9, 1971
- MARVIN CARROLL BRIESACHERSpecialist Five · December 10, 1971
- SCOTT WINSTON MCINTIRELieutenant Colonel · December 10, 1971
From Lawrenceburg
- JOHN ANTHONY FELDHAUSCommander · October 8, 1966
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.