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ELLIS LOVINE FAIRCLOTH
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 3, 1943 – May 8, 1968
Service recordEllis Lovine Faircloth, of Bainbridge, Georgia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 2
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Communications Electronics Equipment Mechanic (31B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 3, 1943
- Home of record
- Bainbridge, Georgia (Decatur County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; nine of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 2
- DAVID STEARNS EASTONSpecialist Four · May 8, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES FIFFEPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- DAVID FOSTER FLETCHERLance Corporal · May 8, 1968
- NORMAND EDWARD FONTAINESpecialist Four · May 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ESTEN ABBOTT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 34
- GREG ALAN DUBOISPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 1
- NORMAND EDWARD FONTAINESpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 2
- MICHAEL JOSEPH FORDICorporal · Panel 57E, Line 3
- RICHARD GONZALEZSergeant · Panel 57E, Line 3
- JOHN FRANCIS MORANSergeant · Panel 57E, Line 6
- JOHN WILLIAM VIKTORYN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 11
- ROOSEVELT WHITEPrivate First Class · Panel 57E, Line 12
From Bainbridge
- STEPHEN LLOYD HALSTEADPrivate First Class · March 24, 1968
- ISAAC HARRISSergeant · September 12, 1968
- CLYDE RANDOLPH PERRY JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1969
- ANTHONY LEROY JENKINSStaff Sergeant · September 9, 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.