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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 Anton John Schnobrich.

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ANTON JOHN SCHNOBRICH

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 10, 1951 – October 22, 1971

Service record

Anton John Schnobrich, of Clyde Park, Montana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1971, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 48

Position of Panel 2W 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
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
August 10, 1951
Home of record
Clyde Park, Montana (Park County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 22, 1971
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1971; eight of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In October 1971, 132 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 48

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.