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EARL FREDERICK BURKE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 27, 1930 – February 7, 1968
Service recordEarl Frederick Burke, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 76
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
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 27, 1930
- Home of record
- Uniontown, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
136 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1968; 42 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 37E, Line 76
- HENRY ARTHUR WRIGHTSecond Lieutenant · February 6, 1968
- RODERICK MICHAEL WRIGHTCorporal · February 6, 1968
- WILLIAM LLOYD YOUNG JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- JOSE GENE ABARASergeant · February 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EUGENE ASHLEY JRSergeant First Class · Panel 37E, Line 77
- KENNETH HANNASergeant Major · Panel 37E, Line 83
- JAMES WILLIAM HOLTMaster Sergeant · Panel 37E, Line 84
- CHARLES W LINDEWALD JRMaster Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 5
- JAMES LESLIE MORELANDSergeant First Class · Panel 38E, Line 7
- DANIEL RAYMOND PHILLIPSSergeant First Class · Panel 38E, Line 10
From Uniontown
- JOSEPH GEORGE EVANS JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- JULIUS JOSEPH VALINT JRLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- BARRY ALAN ZAVISLANCaptain · March 6, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT MCDONOUGHSpecialist Five · May 7, 1968
- DANIEL EUGENE FIKELance Corporal · October 18, 1968
- SAMUEL DALE SHIMEKSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- LOUIS GERARD WHEELERSergeant · March 16, 1969
- HORACE LEE WARDELLPrivate · August 20, 1970
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.