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LYTELL B CHRISTIAN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 31, 1931 – March 13, 1968
Service recordLytell B Christian, of Enterprise, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 32
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 31, 1931
- Home of record
- Enterprise, Alabama (Coffee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 32
- RALPH LEVON WASHINGTONLance Corporal · March 12, 1968
- KENNETH MAURICE WATKINSLance Corporal · March 12, 1968
- EDGAR WILLIAM BLANKENSHIPSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- JAMES LOUIS BUCHYPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID KENNETH DITCHSergeant · Panel 44E, Line 35
- TODD EARLE SWANSONPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 41
- TERRY LEO TRAINORFirst Lieutenant · Panel 44E, Line 42
From Enterprise
- BILLY GENE HAMMERChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 12, 1965
- JAMES ROWE STEPHENSSpecialist Four · May 17, 1966
- JOHN HENRY JONESPrivate First Class · October 4, 1966
- WILLIAM RUSSEL PHILLIPSLieutenant Colonel · February 3, 1967
- GUY ALBERT BYRDSergeant First Class · April 5, 1967
- WILLIAM TERRY ALLENFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1967
- RONALD ISAAC CRODYStaff Sergeant · January 17, 1969
- ALLEN WAYNE ALLUMSSpecialist Five · May 6, 1969
- GREEN EDWARD MILLER JRStaff Sergeant · May 5, 1970
- JAMES RICHARD LAYTONSergeant · July 22, 1972
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.