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JOE EARL LADELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 24, 1945 – December 12, 1968
Service recordJoe Earl Ladell, of Paris, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 11
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- February 24, 1945
- Home of record
- Paris, Texas (Lamar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1968. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 11
- HARRY CLINTON DORSETTCorporal · December 12, 1968
- STANLEY CARL FULLERSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- DOUGLAS BERNARD KEHOESpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- JOHNNY KINGSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH QUINNSergeant · September 24, 1969
From Paris
- BOBBY JOE BRASWELLPrivate First Class · February 14, 1966
- HARDY LEE BELLChief Master Sergeant · November 26, 1966
- CLARENCE LOVICE EVANSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- ARNOLD REX BRAYSpecialist Four · April 27, 1969
- TITUS LEE EPPSPrivate First Class · November 12, 1970
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.