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LEWIS LEROY SHORT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 12, 1947 – August 7, 1969
Service recordLewis Leroy Short, of Covelo, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 7, 1969, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 110
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Central Office Switchboard Operator (72C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- December 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Covelo, California (Mendocino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 7, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tuyen Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 7, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tuyen Duc Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 110
- FREDERICK WELSHPrivate First Class · August 7, 1969
- RICHARD LEE WILSONPrivate First Class · August 7, 1969
- EDMOND DALE WIMMERGRENSpecialist Four · August 7, 1969
- LIONEL WORKMANSergeant · August 7, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN BLAKE PEELSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 109
From Covelo
- CLYDE EDWARD RAINSSergeant · March 4, 1969
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.