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LOUIS CLEVELAND KIMBRELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 9, 1947 – June 28, 1968
Service recordLouis Cleveland Kimbrell, of Sibley, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 12
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Sibley, Missouri (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 12
- BLAIR LOGAN KEOWNPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- STANLEY ROY KILTON JRPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD MCGUIGONPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- GEORGE LESTER MYERS JRPetty Officer Third Class · June 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM LEE HARRISPrivate First Class · Panel 54W, Line 10
- BLAIR LOGAN KEOWNPrivate First Class · Panel 54W, Line 12
- YANCEY SMITH JRPrivate · Panel 54W, Line 13
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.