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PHILLIP DOUGLAS LAFRAMBOISE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 3, 1939 – February 29, 1968
Service recordPhillip Douglas Laframboise, of La Mesa, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 29, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 3, 1939
- Home of record
- La Mesa, California (San Diego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 7
- DOUGLAS ALAN LENTZPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- FREDERICK L MARTINPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- MICHAEL EMMETT MARTINSpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
- VERNON JOSEPH MILLER JRCorporal · February 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GERALD CERVANTESSergeant · Panel 42E, Line 2
- EARL ERWIN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 4
- ARTHUR JOHN TURKSTRASpecialist Four · Panel 42E, Line 11
From La Mesa
- ROGER VIRGIL KELLEYLance Corporal · September 29, 1967
- DOUGLAS BRUCE BAUMSergeant · November 18, 1967
- MICHAEL JOSEPH DINAPOLISeaman · December 23, 1967
- JAMES PEYTON CROOKPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- DIETER RUDOLF VATERPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- MICHAEL MILLER JRPrivate First Class · December 20, 1968
- CRAIG HABERLEINSergeant · June 19, 1969
- RAYMOND TORRESStaff Sergeant · July 10, 1969
- MICHAEL HENRY SHANLEY JRSergeant First Class · December 2, 1969
- KENNETH WAYNE PREVOSTSpecialist Five · March 13, 1970
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.