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IVRA ALLEN TATUM
Corporal · U.S. Army
October 20, 1944 – July 7, 1967
Service recordIvra Allen Tatum, of Stephens, Arkansas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 187 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 20, 1944
- Home of record
- Stephens, Arkansas (Ouachita County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 7, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “187 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 32
- DONALD JEAN SOBYPrivate First Class · July 7, 1967
- WLADYSLAW STANISZEWSKICorporal · July 7, 1967
- HAROLD TAYLORPrivate First Class · July 7, 1967
- LEE ROY TAYLORSpecialist Four · July 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ALBERT DEROSIERCaptain · Panel 23E, Line 27
- PAUL JOSEPH SIMONPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 31
From Stephens
- THOMAS HAROLD BAILEYPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
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.