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DOUGLAS FRANKLIN LOUDENBACK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 15, 1948 – March 28, 1968
Service recordDouglas Franklin Loudenback, of Ashland, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 95 EVAC HOSP 67 MED GRP
- Born
- July 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Ashland, Kentucky (Boyd County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 57
- HENRY ELMER MACCANNColonel · March 28, 1968
- PAUL EVANS MAYERSergeant Major · March 28, 1968
- FREDERICK DONALD MCCARTYSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
- JIMMIE LEFON MCRAEPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
From Ashland
- CHARLES DONALD SENTERSPrivate First Class · January 27, 1966
- JAMES LEONARD FAINSpecialist Four · February 22, 1966
- BOBBY SENTERSStaff Sergeant · June 20, 1966
- WILLIAM CLIFFORD FRALEYSergeant First Class · July 6, 1966
- LAWRENCE EDWARD LEWISAirman First Class · May 12, 1967
- CARL PHILIP MCCORMICKSergeant · November 5, 1967
- ARTHUR JACKSON SANDERSStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1967
- JOSEPH BRUCE ROBINSONPrivate First Class · February 8, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM ALLENSpecialist Five · April 23, 1968
- KENNETH RAY NEWSOMELance Corporal · May 6, 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.