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LATHAN HOUSTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 17, 1948 – December 10, 1968
Service recordLathan Houston, of De Kalb, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 81
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 17, 1948
- Home of record
- De Kalb, Mississippi (Kemper County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 81
- BOYCE LEE HALLCorporal · December 10, 1968
- JOHN KING HOBSONHospitalman · December 10, 1968
- GARY STEPHEN HODGESPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- LAMONT JACKSONPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS TODD CHAPMANPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 79
- GARY STEPHEN HODGESPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 81
- MELVIN DOUGLAS NELSONSergeant · Panel 37W, Line 83
- BOBBY CLYDE SNYDERSergeant · Panel 37W, Line 83
From De Kalb
- I V BOURRAGESergeant · February 21, 1967
- JAMES GENIUS CLARKSergeant · May 25, 1967
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.