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ANTHONY SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 1, 1946 – January 14, 1968
Service recordAnthony Smith, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 14, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 50
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)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 14, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date January 14, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 50
- HARLAN T PACHEPrivate First Class · January 14, 1968
- PAUL DOUGLAS STRAHMFirst Lieutenant · January 14, 1968
- CLIFFORD OTIS WARECorporal · January 14, 1968
- ROY EDWIN WOLFPrivate First Class · January 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NOLAN DONALD HABERMANPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 48
- FREDRICK H HEMPHILLPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 49
- HARLAN T PACHEPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 50
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.