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PHILIP WILLIAM STROUT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 14, 1948 – May 23, 1969
Service recordPhilip William Strout, of Portland, Maine, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1969, in Cambodia, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 91
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Portland, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 24W, Line 91
- FREDES VINDO MENDEZ-ORTIZPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- JOHN MICHAEL ODONNELLSergeant · May 23, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD WORKMANPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- JAMES BOSTON JRPrivate First Class · May 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HOWARD SCOTT HILLSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 85
- RUDOLPH GEORGE MACHATAStaff Sergeant · Panel 24W, Line 87
From Portland
- LESTER EARL MACDONALDSergeant · June 8, 1966
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM SHAY JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1966
- JAMES M MCDONOUGH JRCaptain · August 2, 1966
- ROBERT GREGORY WILLIAMSONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1966
- PAUL LEWIS STIMPSONFirst Lieutenant · April 22, 1967
- ROBERT ALLAN TURNERPetty Officer Second Class · May 18, 1967
- HAROLD ELLSWORTH SOUTHARDPrivate First Class · June 24, 1967
- LAWRENCE LANOSpecialist Five · October 29, 1967
- STEPHEN JOHN WHIPPLEPrivate First Class · December 15, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH DARCYChief Master Sergeant · December 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.