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LOUIS HENRY WILSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 11, 1944 – April 15, 1970
Service recordLouis Henry Wilson, of Belzoni, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1970, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 11
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
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 11, 1944
- Home of record
- Belzoni, Mississippi (Humphreys County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1970
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1970; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 11
- RANDALL ROBERT SIMMONSCorporal · April 15, 1970
- CLARENCE WAYNE TEMPLETONCorporal · April 15, 1970
- RICK ALAN WILCOXPrivate First Class · April 15, 1970
- THURMAN WILLIAM WOLFESpecialist Four · April 15, 1970
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE ALLEN SMOKEPrivate First Class · Panel 11W, Line 10
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.