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NELSON OMAR VANHOUTEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 18, 1946 – April 13, 1969
Service recordNelson Omar Vanhouten, of Paterson, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 13, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 78
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Paterson, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1969; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 78
- JOHN HALE JRPrivate First Class · April 13, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH SCHMELZLESpecialist Four · April 13, 1969
- WILFRED F SCHMIDT JRWarrant Officer 1 · April 13, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER LEIGH SENESEPrivate First Class · April 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ALVIE JUNIOR LEDFORD JRCaptain · Panel 27W, Line 75
- RALPH DAVID MCMURTRYSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 76
- JOSEPH DUDLEY MELONSON JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 27W, Line 76
- WILLIAM C PIERSON IIIChief Warrant Officer 3 · Panel 27W, Line 77
- JOHN HALE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 78
- LOUIS JOSEPH WEHRHEIMSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 79
From Paterson
- JESSE JAMES JRLance Corporal · June 23, 1965
- LLOYD VINCENT GREENESergeant · November 8, 1965
- RAFAEL SANTIAGO-CRUZPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- WILLIAM HOBSON HUBBARDSergeant First Class · March 16, 1966
- PETER FRANCIS MEADPetty Officer Third Class · May 21, 1966
- JOHN HENRY LADUKELance Corporal · April 20, 1967
- WLADMIR WILLIAM ZUBARSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- VINCENT JAMES GABRIEL JRPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- DONALD IANDOLISergeant · November 19, 1967
- ARTHUR JORDANPrivate First Class · January 10, 1968
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.