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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Julius Maddox.

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JULIUS MADDOX

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 10, 1947 – March 22, 1968

Service record

Julius Maddox, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45E · Line 58

Position of Panel 45E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
August 10, 1947
Home of record
Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 22, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 68 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.

Also on Panel 45E, Line 58

From Detroit

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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.