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JEFFREY DAVID HOUNSHELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 30, 1948 – November 30, 1968
Service recordJeffrey David Hounshell, of Decatur, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- January 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Decatur, Georgia (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 11
- LAWRENCE CASEY GARRETTPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- JAMES EDWIN GLISSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
- JAMES HAYES HALLCorporal · November 30, 1968
- SHERLIN ANDREW HEIMANPrivate First Class · November 30, 1968
From Decatur
- HARRY SANFORD EDWARDS JRLieutenant Commander · October 20, 1966
- DAVID EDWARD MCRAELieutenant Commander · December 2, 1966
- CHARLES RICHARD GUTTILLAFirst Lieutenant · February 20, 1967
- VIRGIL STANLEY JRSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- JOSEPH CHAMPIONSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- AUBREY LAURENCE HEWITTSergeant · June 3, 1967
- ROY HAMILTON LEACHPrivate · August 30, 1967
- EARL WELDON WATKINS JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- MICHAEL BARRY TURNERPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- WILLIAM CLAYTON SHUMATEPrivate · February 19, 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.