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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Paul Luther Loidolt.

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PAUL LUTHER LOIDOLT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 30, 1948 – February 21, 1969

Service record

Paul Luther Loidolt, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1969, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48E · Line 4

Position of Panel 48E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Born
August 30, 1948
Home of record
Phoenix, Arizona

Casualty

Date of death
February 21, 1969
Age
20
Added to the Wall
2014

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1969. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 48E, Line 4

From Phoenix

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2014, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.