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FREDDIE LEE LAMKIN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 26, 1945 – November 12, 1968
Service recordFreddie Lee Lamkin, of Greenville, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Armament Repairman (45J)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 54
- RALPH GUARIENTIPrivate First Class · November 12, 1968
- ROBERT ELEE JACKSONPrivate First Class · November 12, 1968
- FRANCIS JOSEPH JURANIC JRLance Corporal · November 12, 1968
- DALE K LARSONSergeant · November 12, 1968
From Greenville
- THOMAS EDWARD MCMAHAN JRCaptain · September 28, 1965
- GARY RAY BRYANTSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
- WALTER REAVES TATE JRSpecialist Four · July 20, 1966
- WILLIAM HENRY HAWKINSStaff Sergeant · July 24, 1966
- SAMUEL RALPH MOSERPrivate First Class · August 3, 1966
- CHARLIE LYLES JRSergeant · November 17, 1966
- KENNETH RHODESSpecialist Four · December 12, 1966
- DOUGLAS MACARTHUR MCCRARYFirst Lieutenant · February 16, 1967
- DANA CORNELL DARNELLLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
- JIMMY WILLIAM HALLLance Corporal · June 7, 1967
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.