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HU BLAKEMORE RHODES
Chief Warrant Officer 3 · U.S. Army
January 19, 1933 – May 24, 1968
Service recordHu Blakemore Rhodes, of Shelbyville, Tennessee, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 69E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 69E · Line 1
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
- Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 19, 1933
- Home of record
- Shelbyville, Tennessee (Bedford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 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 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 69E, Line 1
- LAWRENCE GERALD RENOSergeant · May 24, 1968
- GLOUSTER RHYNESPrivate First Class · May 24, 1968
- LARRY LLOYD RILEYLance Corporal · May 24, 1968
- EMMETT RUCKER JRLieutenant Colonel · May 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT MILTON PAULKChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 68E, Line 6
- FLOYD LEE WILLIAMS JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 70E, Line 1
From Shelbyville
- CHARLES GILBERT TUCKERCaptain · April 6, 1965
- DONALD RAY STEPHENSONSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- JERRY MICHAEL LOVELLSpecialist Four · May 18, 1969
- CHARLES CRAWFORD NAPPERSpecialist Four · November 7, 1969
- KENNETH BRYANT BECKMANLance Corporal · January 11, 1970
- LARRY EUGENE MULLINSPrivate First Class · April 1, 1970
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.