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LEMUEL ISABELLE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 25, 1947 – February 25, 1969
Service recordLemuel Isabelle, of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 25, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 50
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Locomotive Repairer (65B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- March 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Charleroi, Pennsylvania (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1969; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 50
- STEVEN VARGAS GARCIALance Corporal · February 25, 1969
- MICHAEL LEE JENKINSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- ROOSEVELT JOHNSON JRPrivate · February 25, 1969
- WILLIAM BARTON JONESPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
From Charleroi
- JAY WAYNE PAROLASpecialist Four · October 28, 1968
- RONALD DALE BELARSKISergeant · August 25, 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.