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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 Earl Poole.

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CONRAD EARL POOLE

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

February 1, 1942 – April 6, 1967

Service record

Conrad Earl Poole, of Oneonta, Alabama, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 114

Position of Panel 17E 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 Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
February 1, 1942
Home of record
Oneonta, Alabama (Blount County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 6, 1967
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 114

Same unit, same day

From Oneonta

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.