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TIMOTHY LAWRENCE STROHM
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 28, 1948 – June 2, 1968
Service recordTimothy Lawrence Strohm, of Enterprise, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 2, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61W · Line 17
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Enterprise, Oregon (Wallowa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 61W, Line 17
- AUDRON L SMITHPrivate First Class · June 2, 1968
- JAMES GORDON SMITHLance Corporal · June 2, 1968
- LLOYD MARTAIN STARKEYSpecialist Four · June 2, 1968
- RICHARD FRANK TRISKESergeant · June 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JESSIE GERALD POESergeant · Panel 61W, Line 15
- DENNIS MICHAEL RAMONSpecialist Four · Panel 61W, Line 16
- JOSEPH TOMMY VANDEVENDERCorporal · Panel 61W, Line 18
From Enterprise
- WAYNE ALVIN ECKLEYChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- DAVID LEE SMITHLance Corporal · December 20, 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.