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LUCIUS WINFIELD
Corporal · U.S. Army
January 3, 1946 – September 10, 1967
Service recordLucius Winfield, of Itta Bena, Mississippi, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 54
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Itta Bena, Mississippi (Leflore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 10, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
66 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1967; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 54
- JIMMY DARRELL WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- JAMES CLAIR WILSONPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- MICHAEL FERDINAND WOLFLance Corporal · September 10, 1967
- RONALD LEE BLACKSergeant · September 11, 1967
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.