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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Anthony Blake Cadwell.

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ANTHONY BLAKE CADWELL

Private · U.S. Army

April 9, 1945 – October 17, 1967

Service record

Anthony Blake Cadwell, of Missoula, Montana, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on October 17, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 19

Position of Panel 28E 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
Unit (as recorded)
188 MAINT BN VIETNAM
Born
April 9, 1945
Home of record
Missoula, Montana (Missoula County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 17, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

75 names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 19

From Missoula

All 23 names from Missoula →

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.