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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hubia Jude Guillory.

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HUBIA JUDE GUILLORY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 17, 1947 – April 25, 1968

Service record

Hubia Jude Guillory, of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52E · Line 5

Position of Panel 52E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
October 17, 1947
Home of record
New Orleans, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
April 25, 1968
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 52E, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From New Orleans

All 164 names from New Orleans →

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.