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ARTHUR R NEWKIRK
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 19, 1947 – May 25, 1969
Service recordArthur R Newkirk, of Elizabethtown, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1969, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 105
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Elizabethtown, North Carolina (Bladen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 24W, Line 105
- PAUL ARNOLD GRAFFLance Corporal · May 25, 1969
- LIN ALBERT MAHNERPetty Officer First Class · May 25, 1969
- JOSEPH F MCCARTHY JRSpecialist Four · May 25, 1969
- GEORGE CECIL MELTONPrivate · May 25, 1969
From Elizabethtown
- WILLIAM R RUSSPrivate First Class · November 7, 1967
- THOMAS FREDRICK SWANN JRFirst Lieutenant · May 10, 1968
- DAVID SMITH IISpecialist Four · June 23, 1968
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.