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BERT ELLIS BURTON
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
November 15, 1934 – February 27, 1969
Service recordBert Ellis Burton, of Greenfield, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 27, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 76
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
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Born
- November 15, 1934
- Home of record
- Greenfield, Illinois (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1969
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1969; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 76
- MACK CLIFFORD BOBLETTMaster Sergeant · February 27, 1969
- ROBERT ALVIN BROTHENSergeant · February 27, 1969
- EARNEST JACK BUCKELEWPetty Officer Third Class · February 27, 1969
- JOSEPH FRANK BURINDA JRFireman · February 27, 1969
From Greenfield
- CHARLES PAUL POHLMANSpecialist Four · February 10, 1967
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.