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LOUIS GERARD WHEELER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 29, 1948 – March 16, 1969
Service recordLouis Gerard Wheeler, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 57
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Surveyor (82C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Uniontown, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1969; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 57
- RICHARD MICHAEL ROCCOCorporal · March 16, 1969
- MARLON WADE TROXELPrivate First Class · March 16, 1969
- CHARLES W WARRINGTON JRPrivate First Class · March 16, 1969
- JEFF WHITEHEADLance Corporal · March 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MANUEL BUSTOS ALONZOSergeant First Class · Panel 29W, Line 50
- EDWARD CHARLES COFIELD JRFirst Sergeant · Panel 29W, Line 52
- DENNIS MICHAEL GROVESCorporal · Panel 29W, Line 53
- FRANK JOHN JOE MATTERACorporal · Panel 29W, Line 55
- ROLANDO G VILLARREALStaff Sergeant · Panel 29W, Line 55
From Uniontown
- JOSEPH GEORGE EVANS JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- JULIUS JOSEPH VALINT JRLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- BARRY ALAN ZAVISLANCaptain · March 6, 1967
- EARL FREDERICK BURKESergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT MCDONOUGHSpecialist Five · May 7, 1968
- DANIEL EUGENE FIKELance Corporal · October 18, 1968
- SAMUEL DALE SHIMEKSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- HORACE LEE WARDELLPrivate · August 20, 1970
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.