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MAX WELKER PUGMIRE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 10, 1949 – October 24, 1969
Service recordMax Welker Pugmire, of Montpelier, Idaho, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 113
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- April 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Montpelier, Idaho (Bear Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 113
- WILLIAM FRANCIS LARSONSpecialist Five · October 24, 1969
- JAMES CRAIG MCPHILLIPSLance Corporal · October 24, 1969
- HERBERT LEE MOORE JRPrivate · October 24, 1969
- HELMUT WALTER PAIERStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RODNEY RAY COLLINSPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 112
- JOSEPH ROBERT HAGY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 112
- ALBERT ORLANDO WAYMAN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 115
From Montpelier
- CHARLES CLARK GREGORYPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 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.