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SAMUEL W WALTHOUR JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 2, 1949 – July 30, 1969
Service recordSamuel W Walthour JR, of Waterloo, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 30, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 78
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 2, 1949
- Home of record
- Waterloo, Iowa (Black Hawk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 30, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date July 30, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 78
- ERNEST LEE STANFORDPrivate First Class · July 30, 1969
- JOHN RAY STASHONSKYPrivate First Class · July 30, 1969
- HAROLD OLIVER STUMPSpecialist Four · July 30, 1969
From Waterloo
- WILLIAM JOSEPH BARRAGYMajor · May 4, 1966
- DAVID IRA MUSCHPrivate First Class · September 30, 1966
- DAVID HENRY PAULSENPrivate First Class · November 12, 1966
- RUSSELL LOUIS HALLEYPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JEFFERY THOMAS DINESPrivate · January 13, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD GREENSergeant · March 30, 1967
- RONALD MARVIN STEINCorporal · May 9, 1967
- ROBERT WILBUR DEYO JRPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- MERLE KEITH FAGERLIND JRCorporal · December 4, 1967
- LORENCE MARION LUNDBYSpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
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.