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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Edward Lothman.

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JAMES EDWARD LOTHMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 18, 1947 – October 4, 1968

Service record

James Edward Lothman, of Euclid, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 4, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 41W · Line 6

Position of Panel 41W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
May 18, 1947
Home of record
Euclid, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 4, 1968
Age
21
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date October 4, 1968; nine of them were lost in Long An Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 41W, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From Euclid

All 12 names from Euclid →

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.