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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Warren G H Lizotte JR.

The Wall › Panel 31W › Iowa › Warren G H Lizotte JR

WARREN G H LIZOTTE JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 20, 1948 – February 26, 1969

Service record

Warren G H Lizotte JR, of Des Moines, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 69

Position of Panel 31W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
August 20, 1948
Home of record
Des Moines, Iowa (Polk County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 26, 1969
Age
20
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

61 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 69

Same unit, same day

From Des Moines

All 89 names from Des Moines →

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.