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LOUIS CHRIS SCHLOTE
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
February 3, 1932 – April 16, 1968
Service recordLouis Chris Schlote, of Ft Bragg, California, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 16, 1968, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 21
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- February 3, 1932
- Home of record
- Ft Bragg, California (Mendocino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 16, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuy Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 21
- MARVIN GENE RUSHPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- JOHN RAYMOND SCHAAFPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- HUGH ERNEST SCHAVELINLance Corporal · April 16, 1968
- STEPHEN ERIC SEIFERTHPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
From Ft Bragg
- DANIEL GEORGE DAWSONCaptain · November 6, 1964
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.