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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 Caspar Marvin Walsh III.

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CASPAR MARVIN WALSH III

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 17, 1946 – November 8, 1966

Service record

Caspar Marvin Walsh III, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 45

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 17, 1946
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 8, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 45

Same unit, same day

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.