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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Asher Aubrey Anthony.

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ASHER AUBREY ANTHONY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 14, 1944 – July 11, 1967

Service record

Asher Aubrey Anthony, of Greensboro, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 49

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 14, 1944
Home of record
Greensboro, North Carolina (Guilford County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 49

From Greensboro

All 56 names from Greensboro →

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.