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ROSS WHITTIER LIVERMORE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 18, 1945 – January 4, 1969
Service recordRoss Whittier Livermore, of Germantown, Tennessee, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 35
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 18, 1945
- Home of record
- Germantown, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 35
- RALPH EDWARD ICKE IILance Corporal · January 4, 1969
- MITCHELL SIM LANECaptain · January 4, 1969
- JAMES ROBERT MACYSpecialist Four · January 4, 1969
- ALVIN EDWARD MILLERCorporal · January 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FRANK EDWARD BRAWNERCorporal · Panel 35W, Line 32
- ALFRED DEAN HILDEBRANDSpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 34
From Germantown
- WILLIAM GROOM LEFTWICH JRLieutenant Colonel · November 18, 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.