Potterfield, Clarence A., 2LT

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Last Rank
Second Lieutenant
Last Service Branch
Infantry
Last Primary MOS
1542-Infantry Unit Commander
Last MOS Group
Infantry
Primary Unit
1941-1943, 1542, 34th Infantry Division
Service Years
1941 - 1943
Infantry
Second Lieutenant

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Home State
West Virginia
West Virginia
Year of Birth
1917
 
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Casualty Info
Home Town
Charleston
Casualty Date
Apr 01, 1943
 
Cause
KIA-Killed in Action
Reason
Unknown, Not Reported
Location
Tunisia
Conflict
WWII - Africa Theater of Operations/Tunisia Campaign (1942-43)
Location of Interment
Sunset Memorial Park - South Charleston, West Virginia

 Official Badges 

Infantry Shoulder Cord


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WWII - Africa Theater of Operations/Algeria-French Morocco Campaign (1942)
From Month/Year
November / 1942
To Month/Year
November / 1942

Description
(Algeria-French Morocco Campaign 8-11 November 1942) Three days after their victory at El Alamein the Allies opened a new front with an assault on Algeria and French Morocco. Twelfth Air Force, with some units based on Gibraltar, some aboard the invasion fleet, and some bearing paratroops from England, entered combat at this time. The campaign was brkf, for the French in Algeria and French Morocco offered little resistance to the invaders.)
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
November / 1942
To Month/Year
November / 1942
 
Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
Personal Memories
   
Units Participated in Operation

1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment

3rd Infantry Division

A Battery, 26th Field Artillery

202nd Military Police Company

 
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
No Available Photos

  195 Also There at This Battle:
  • Angileri, Joseph, T/SGT, (1942-1946)
  • Badyl, Kenneth
  • Carratelli, Horace, 1ST SGT, (1941-1945)
  • Fisco, Richard, S/SGT
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