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JAMES ELLIS LOUDERMILK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 17, 1947 – December 27, 1967
Service recordJames Ellis Loudermilk, of Vero Beach, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 77
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)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Vero Beach, Florida (Indian River County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
88 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1967; five of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 77
- EARL LEROY LEWISPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE LEWISPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- VERNON RAYMOND LIPINSKIPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- GEORGE EDWARD LONSDALEPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GORDON THOMAS DALTONPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 71
- GUY DALE KISTNERPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 75
- THOMAS WILLIAM MALLOYSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 81
- RICHARD JOHN SOLCZYKFirst Lieutenant · Panel 32E, Line 82
From Vero Beach
- STEPHAN MAX WIGGINSSergeant · March 30, 1968
- MARK JACKSONFirst Lieutenant · October 28, 1969
- LARRY DUANE ARONHALTPrivate First Class · March 3, 1970
- WILLIAM MARSHALL CLARKCaptain · February 23, 1972
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.