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ARTHUR JAMES ELLIOT II
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
April 9, 1933 – December 29, 1968
Service recordArthur James Elliot II, of Thomaston, Maine, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 29, 1968, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 3
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- April 9, 1933
- Home of record
- Thomaston, Maine (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Go Cong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Go Cong Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 3
- BILLIE BYRDSergeant · December 29, 1968
- JAMES IRVING CUTLERSergeant · December 29, 1968
- SAMUEL VERNELL DAVISPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
- JOSEPH EDWARD STRAWBRIDGESpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
From Thomaston
- SAYWARD NEWTON HALL JRMajor · April 21, 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.