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LEWIS RODNEY CAIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 24, 1947 – November 19, 1968
Service recordLewis Rodney Cain, of Kilmarnock, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 10
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)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Kilmarnock, Virginia (Lancaster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1968; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 10
- YALE REZIN DAVIS JRMajor · November 19, 1968
- ROBERT ALAN DESROCHERSSpecialist Four · November 19, 1968
- JERRY EUGENE DOROUGHSpecialist Four · November 19, 1968
- CALVIN FIELDERStaff Sergeant · November 19, 1968
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.