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HERSCHEL PITTMAN HELM JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 30, 1943 – September 18, 1966
Service recordHerschel Pittman Helm JR, of Coffeeville, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 18, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 113
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- July 30, 1943
- Home of record
- Coffeeville, Mississippi (Yalobusha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 18, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1966; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 113
- ELMER LEE BOATMANPrivate First Class · September 18, 1966
- GERALD DALY GEOGHEGANFirst Lieutenant · September 18, 1966
- THOMAS CHARLES JONOZZOPrivate First Class · September 18, 1966
- STEPHEN PETER MILLERCorporal · September 18, 1966
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.