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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allan Edward Schwartz.

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ALLAN EDWARD SCHWARTZ

Corporal · U.S. Army

March 10, 1948 – October 25, 1968

Service record

Allan Edward Schwartz, of Lushton, Nebraska, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 34

Position of Panel 40W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 10, 1948
Home of record
Lushton, Nebraska (York County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 25, 1968
Age
20
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 34

Same unit, same day

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.