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L C PITCHFORD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 26, 1946 – December 10, 1965
Service recordL C Pitchford, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 10
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 10
- LESLIE PUZYREWSKICorporal · December 10, 1965
- LAWRENCE FREDRICK RAMAKERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- RUDY MANTIAD SAGONSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
- RALPH SHANKSpecialist Four · December 10, 1965
Same unit, same day
- TINSLEY BRYANTSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 6
- OMER GENE DARTYPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 7
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 4E, Line 8
- CLAUDE L JOHNSONSergeant · Panel 4E, Line 9
- ROBERT L KECKLERSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 9
- LAWRENCE FREDRICK RAMAKERSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 10
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.