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SAMUEL C PHILLIPS III
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 7, 1943 – October 2, 1967
Service recordSamuel C Phillips III, of Homedale, Idaho, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 2, 1967, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 41
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Counterintelligence Analyst (97B)
- Born
- July 7, 1943
- Home of record
- Homedale, Idaho (Owyhee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 2, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 41
- PATRICK LOUIS OTTCaptain · October 2, 1967
- RICHARD PETER RUIZSergeant · October 2, 1967
- ELZIE EUGENE SAMUELSPrivate First Class · October 2, 1967
- ROGER THURSTON SAWYERSCaptain · October 2, 1967
From Homedale
- WILLIAM JAMES GRIFFINMajor · March 14, 1969
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.