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ABRA JOSEPH WOLFE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 16, 1948 – March 30, 1968
Service recordAbra Joseph Wolfe JR, of Houma, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Houma, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 19
- EDUARDO ARANDA-SANTOSSpecialist Four · March 31, 1968
- LESLIE ARNOLD BALLSergeant · March 31, 1968
- FREEMAN BOLENSpecialist Four · March 31, 1968
- JAMES BARRETT BROCKPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
From Houma
- RAYMOND PATRICK FLYNNPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- ROY ANTHONY DUTHUPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- CALVIN RAYMOND HEBERT JRCorporal · February 22, 1966
- MILLER JOHN BOURGLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES BOUDREAUXPrivate First Class · July 7, 1966
- WILTON PAUL LEBOUEFSpecialist Four · August 21, 1966
- SAMUEL ENNIS MURPHPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- ELDRIDGE MICHAEL BRUNETSpecialist Four · September 27, 1967
- RUDOLPH JOHN BILLIOTPrivate First Class · December 21, 1967
- ROBERT LEE SCOTTPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
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.