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CECIL EUCLED CALLANDER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 27, 1948 – January 10, 1971
Service recordCecil Eucled Callander, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 36
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- September 27, 1948
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1971
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1971; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 36
- CRAIG ALAN SYSAKCorporal · January 9, 1971
- GORDON LEE WIRTH JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 9, 1971
- WILLARD EVERETT WOODYSpecialist Four · January 9, 1971
- BARRY HOWARD BERGERPrivate First Class · January 10, 1971
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH ALAN DAHLSpecialist Four · Panel 5W, Line 37
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 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.