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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jack Neece Louallen.

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JACK NEECE LOUALLEN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 24, 1949 – March 30, 1969

Service record

Jack Neece Louallen, of Jefferson, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 28W · Line 92

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Pioneer (12A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 24, 1949
Home of record
Jefferson, South Carolina (Chesterfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 30, 1969
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1969; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 28W, Line 92

From Jefferson

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.