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LOUIS WADE CUSSINS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
June 18, 1949 – February 18, 1968
Service recordLouis Wade Cussins, of Trenton, Michigan, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 3
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Trenton, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 3
- RHONDAL GENE CLAYPOOLSpecialist Four · February 18, 1968
- DALLAS DEWEY CUMMINGSPetty Officer Second Class · February 18, 1968
- WILLIAM MARINUS DEVOSPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- GREGORY JAMES EVANSPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
From Trenton
- CHARLES BOYD WHITEPrivate First Class · May 1, 1966
- WALTER WAYNE CUNNINGHAMSergeant · October 31, 1967
- PATRICK JAMES MCKINLEYLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- GARY WAYNE HOLBROOKCorporal · February 7, 1968
- WILLIAM DAVID GOUGER JRSpecialist Four · February 11, 1969
- ROBERT LEE WUNDERPrivate First Class · March 25, 1971
- ROBERT JOHN DIPIETROSpecialist Four · July 29, 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.