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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Phillip Paul Summers.

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PHILLIP PAUL SUMMERS

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

April 10, 1944 – December 1, 1967

Service record

Phillip Paul Summers, of Marble Hill, Missouri, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 1, 1967, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 31E · Line 22

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
Unit (as recorded)
D CO 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
April 10, 1944
Home of record
Marble Hill, Missouri (Bollinger County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 1, 1967
Age
23
Province
Lam Dong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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12 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1967; he was the only one lost in Lam Dong Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 31E, Line 22

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.