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LOUIS FULDA GUILLERMIN
Major · U.S. Air Force
January 6, 1943 – April 30, 1968
Service recordLouis Fulda Guillermin, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on April 30, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Navigator (1535Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 609 ACS
- Born
- January 6, 1943
- Home of record
- West Chester, Pennsylvania (Chester County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 30, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “609 ACS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 53E, Line 14
- GEORGE GREGORIUSLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- CECIL MORRIS HAIGLERCorporal · April 30, 1968
- WILLIAM HOWARD HANCOCK IIPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- EDWARD LEONARD MANN JRLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EDWARD PIETSCHLieutenant Colonel · Panel 53E, Line 21
From West Chester
- GENE SMEDLEY MCMULLENSecond Lieutenant · July 16, 1966
- ERNEST E ORENDORFF JRCorporal · August 3, 1966
- BLAINE A DEBOARD JRLance Corporal · December 29, 1966
- DAVID CARL STANLEYSpecialist Four · September 14, 1967
- DWIGHT DAWSON JOHNSONLance Corporal · May 4, 1968
- PAUL LEONARD COSGRIFFSpecialist Five · October 21, 1968
- THOMAS MICHAEL MARCHANDPrivate First Class · June 12, 1969
- ELDIN GEORGE BERGER JRLance Corporal · October 9, 1969
- ROBERT WILLIAM DONAHUE JRSecond Lieutenant · November 28, 1969
- NATHANIAL CARL MATTHEWSSpecialist Five · August 10, 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.