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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 James Louis Todtenbier.

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JAMES LOUIS TODTENBIER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 22, 1948 – June 6, 1969

Service record

James Louis Todtenbier, of Covington, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 93

Position of Panel 23W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
January 22, 1948
Home of record
Covington, Kentucky (Kenton County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 6, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

65 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1969; nine of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 93

Same unit, same day

From Covington

All 29 names from Covington →

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.