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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mathew L Jolivette.

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MATHEW L JOLIVETTE

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

September 10, 1944 – May 29, 1967

Service record

Mathew L Jolivette, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 29, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 13

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
September 10, 1944
Home of record
Houston, Texas (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 29, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

44 names on the Wall carry the date May 29, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 13

Same unit, same day

From Houston

All 358 names from Houston →

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.