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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lewis C Gilder.

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LEWIS C GILDER

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

April 17, 1944 – September 3, 1967

Service record

Lewis C Gilder, of Mt Meigs, Alabama, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on September 3, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 25E · Line 92

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Born
April 17, 1944
Home of record
Mt Meigs, Alabama (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 3, 1967
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

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20 names on the Wall carry the date September 3, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 25E, Line 92

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.