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ARTHUR GLIDDEN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 7, 1934 – November 9, 1966
Service recordArthur Glidden, of Baldwin, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 47
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 7, 1934
- Home of record
- Baldwin, New York (Nassau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 9, 1966
- Age
- 32
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 12E, Line 47
- ROBERT ERNEST HARRISLieutenant Colonel · November 9, 1966
- CARL DEAN HOFFMANLance Corporal · November 9, 1966
- RANDLE KINNEYPrivate First Class · November 9, 1966
- CHARLES LEROY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · November 9, 1966
From Baldwin
- KENNETH M RORABACKMaster Sergeant · November 24, 1963
- ROBERT LUDECKERSpecialist Four · May 8, 1967
- RICHARD WALKER HARPERFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- PETER HERMAN HEISSENBUTTELSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- ANTHONY ALFRED GIRETTISecond Lieutenant · March 19, 1969
- CHARLES MICHAEL REEDSergeant · September 10, 1970
- GEORGE WILLIAM MAINARDYSergeant · April 15, 1972
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.