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JOSEPH ALLYN SOMMERHAUSER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 11, 1949 – May 21, 1968
Service recordJoseph Allyn Sommerhauser, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65E · Line 1
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 11, 1949
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 65E, Line 1
- RONALD MITCHELL RANDALLLance Corporal · May 21, 1968
- JEFFREY BERNARD SEGALCorporal · May 21, 1968
- EDWARD CLEO SIMSPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- ALTON LAMER SINGLETARYSergeant First Class · May 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALLEN JOHN BOUDREAUXCorporal · Panel 64E, Line 12
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.