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EARL DOUGLAS OSBORN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 21, 1948 – October 11, 1968
Service recordEarl Douglas Osborn, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 11, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 49
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Photographic Laboratory Specialist (84G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Council Bluffs, Iowa (Pottawattamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 11, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date October 11, 1968; five of them were lost in Long An Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 49
- PAUL NARCISSESergeant · October 11, 1968
- JEFFREY WILLIAM RAINAUDFirst Lieutenant · October 11, 1968
- PETER EDWARD SCHRYVERFirst Lieutenant · October 11, 1968
- JAMES JERRY SHOWSPrivate First Class · October 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HENRY ARTHUR BLANDINGSpecialist Four · Panel 41W, Line 44
- WAYNE GEORGE HENSLEYSergeant · Panel 41W, Line 46
- STEPHEN JOSEPH HOOGTERPPrivate First Class · Panel 41W, Line 47
- DENNIS CLARENCE JERDETPrivate First Class · Panel 41W, Line 47
From Council Bluffs
- MELVIN JOSEPH KILLIANColonel · September 30, 1965
- PHILLIP HARRY GREGOPrivate First Class · August 23, 1966
- LEONARD LLOYD MCQUINN JRPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
- PAUL FRANK WIDTFELDT JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- DENNIS RAY JENSENPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- RAYMOND HENRY KNIGHTSpecialist Five · March 25, 1967
- CLIFFORD DALE NELSONMajor · July 25, 1967
- LOUIS NEWTON COOLEY JRLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- WILLIAM ALLEN IVESPrivate First Class · March 24, 1968
- KENNETH CARL BAXTERLance Corporal · May 1, 1968
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.