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HERBERT HUGO CATO III
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 13, 1946 – April 2, 1968
Service recordHerbert Hugo Cato III, of Mayesville, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Mayesville, South Carolina (Sumter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 38
- ROBERT CECIL STRICKLANDPrivate First Class · April 1, 1968
- DONALD FRANK WOODPetty Officer First Class · April 1, 1968
- ALVIN GEORGE YOXSIMERPetty Officer First Class · April 1, 1968
- GEORGE JOHN KOHLMEIR IIIPrivate First Class · April 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ALLEN MOWERYSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 41
- ALBERT SHILLERCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 43
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.