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HERBERT ARTHUR TATUM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 19, 1943 – March 18, 1969
Service recordHerbert Arthur Tatum, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 74
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 19, 1943
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 74
- JOHN ROGER THIELENSergeant · March 18, 1969
- JOSE TORREROSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- THOMAS JOSEPH YOLKIEWICZPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- JACKIE LEE DAVISONPrivate First Class · March 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE THOMAS FARAWELLPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 68
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.