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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 Albert F Graham JR.

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ALBERT F GRAHAM JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 8, 1949 – October 25, 1970

Service record

Albert F Graham JR, of New Haven, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1970, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 21

Position of Panel 6W 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
Power Generation Equipment Operator/Mechanic (52B)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
February 8, 1949
Home of record
New Haven, Connecticut (New Haven County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 25, 1970
Age
21
Province
Darlac
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1970; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From New Haven

All 38 names from New Haven →

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.