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AUDRON L SMITH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 9, 1948 – June 2, 1968
Service recordAudron L Smith, of Poplarville, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61W · Line 17
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Poplarville, Mississippi (Pearl River County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 61W, Line 17
- JAMES GORDON SMITHLance Corporal · June 2, 1968
- LLOYD MARTAIN STARKEYSpecialist Four · June 2, 1968
- TIMOTHY LAWRENCE STROHMPrivate First Class · June 2, 1968
- RICHARD FRANK TRISKESergeant · June 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS JAMES HARBOURPrivate First Class · Panel 61W, Line 13
- WILLIAM WASHINGTON HENCESergeant First Class · Panel 61W, Line 13
- JAMES LEROY HILLPrivate First Class · Panel 61W, Line 13
- PHILIP FRANK NESTICOCorporal · Panel 61W, Line 15
- THOMAS EUGENE RILEYSergeant · Panel 61W, Line 16
- EDWARD LEROY SIZELOVECorporal · Panel 61W, Line 16
From Poplarville
- ROBERT FISHEL COCHRAN JRSecond Lieutenant · August 18, 1965
- KENNETH LAVELLE SMITHSpecialist Four · May 22, 1969
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.