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LEWIS DANIEL GROTHE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 22, 1946 – January 10, 1967
Service recordLewis Daniel Grothe, of Lakeport, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 5
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Lakeport, California (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 5
- ROGER EDWARD COOPERLance Corporal · January 10, 1967
- JAMES PAUL GAULEYCaptain · January 10, 1967
- HARVEY C HARRISPrivate · January 10, 1967
- RAYMOND DALE HOERNERSpecialist Four · January 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN J BAILEYPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 4
- JUAN JOSE CERVANTEZPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 4
- WILLIE JAMES COOPERPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 4
- THOMAS RICHARD SIEBENSergeant · Panel 14E, Line 7
From Lakeport
- DAVID CARL LINDBERGCaptain · May 21, 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.