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LOUIE PETE PINA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 18, 1947 – December 19, 1967
Service recordLouie Pete Pina, of Mitchell, Nebraska, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 26
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
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- January 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Mitchell, Nebraska (Scotts Bluff County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 26
- JERRY LEE NATIONSSecond Lieutenant · December 19, 1967
- GARY LESLIE NORMANCorporal · December 19, 1967
- RANDALL BREWARD PURDYLance Corporal · December 19, 1967
- STEVEN NICHOLAS RADUCorporal · December 19, 1967
From Mitchell
- VINCENT BERNALPrivate First Class · November 28, 1971
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.