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EARL DEAN AUWARTER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
February 27, 1936 – October 7, 1967
Service recordEarl Dean Auwarter, of Clearwater, Minnesota, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 7, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 63
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 27, 1936
- Home of record
- Clearwater, Minnesota (Wright County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 7, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 7, 1967; four of them were lost in Long An Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 63
- IVAN DALE APPLEBYColonel · October 7, 1967
- JAMES OTIS BEASLEYPrivate First Class · October 7, 1967
- RONALD JOSEPH CARTWRIGHTPrivate First Class · October 7, 1967
- CHARLES DAVID EDWARDSSpecialist Four · October 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- VICTOR MAHLON GROSSSecond Lieutenant · Panel 27E, Line 64
- JOHN EDWARD MADIGAN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 65
- JAMES LARRY LAWRENCECorporal · Panel 27E, Line 66
From Clearwater
- KENNETH L STAGERStaff Sergeant · May 30, 1967
- RICHARD GORDON BROWNSpecialist Four · June 14, 1967
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.