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LOUIE JUNNIE MCFARLAND
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 29, 1945 – July 8, 1968
Service recordLouie Junnie McFarland, of Evanston, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53W · Line 44
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
- Amphibian Engineer (61E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- June 29, 1945
- Home of record
- Evanston, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53W, Line 44
- JAMES ELDON JORDAN JRPrivate First Class · July 8, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES KYLEPrivate First Class · July 8, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD MOORE JRSpecialist Four · July 8, 1968
- JAMES DAVID NANSELPrivate First Class · July 8, 1968
From Evanston
- RICHARD FRANK WALLACECaptain · August 24, 1965
- JAMES E FULLERPrivate · June 22, 1966
- STEPHEN ARTHUR ANDERSONLance Corporal · September 25, 1966
- MICHAEL CHARLES DOYLEFirst Lieutenant · November 7, 1966
- LEE OWENS WHITE JRSpecialist Four · November 21, 1966
- NELSON SAYLER LEHMAN JRCaptain · March 7, 1967
- CLAYTON WINSLOW JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · May 26, 1967
- ALLAN JOSEPH HERMANSecond Lieutenant · September 10, 1967
- ROBERT GEORGE KEATSCaptain · February 2, 1968
- ALBERT JEAN MITCHELLPrivate First Class · March 6, 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.