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MITCHELL LAWRENCE FIRMIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 13, 1947 – September 27, 1968
Service recordMitchell Lawrence Firmin, of Cottonport, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 28
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Cottonport, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 28
- CHARLES EDWARD DELASSUSSergeant · September 27, 1968
- JERRY EDWARD DENSONPrivate First Class · September 27, 1968
- DONALD LEE ELDRIDGEPrivate First Class · September 27, 1968
- RONALD LESTER GRANVILLESpecialist Four · September 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PAUL HOLSTONPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 29
From Cottonport
- GEORGE RANDOLPHStaff Sergeant · June 19, 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.