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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 Conrad Andrew Sova.

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CONRAD ANDREW SOVA

Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 20, 1942 – May 27, 1969

Service record

Conrad Andrew Sova, of Oak Park, Michigan, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 23W · Line 3

Position of Panel 23W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
June 20, 1942
Home of record
Oak Park, Michigan (Oakland County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 27, 1969
Age
26
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1969; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.

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From Oak Park

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.