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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 Cecil Eugene Little.

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CECIL EUGENE LITTLE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 25, 1943 – April 20, 1967

Service record

Cecil Eugene Little, of Sterling, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 53

Position of Panel 18E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Born
March 25, 1943
Home of record
Sterling, Ohio (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 20, 1967
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 53

From Sterling

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.