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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allan Albert Schwarzkopf.

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ALLAN ALBERT SCHWARZKOPF

Fireman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

May 5, 1945 – November 4, 1966

Service record

Allan Albert Schwarzkopf, of Atwater, Minnesota, served as a Fireman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 4, 1966, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12E · Line 24

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Fireman Apprentice (FA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Electrician's Mate (EM)
Born
May 5, 1945
Home of record
Atwater, Minnesota (Kandiyohi County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 4, 1966
Age
21
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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49 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 12E, Line 24

From Atwater

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.