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EARL LEROY POOLE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 20, 1948 – March 28, 1970
Service recordEarl Leroy Poole, of Acworth, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 52
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Acworth, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 52
- CHARLES GLEN HEWITTLance Corporal · March 28, 1970
- FRED GEORGE KOVARIKSergeant · March 28, 1970
- THOMAS EMILE LACOSTELance Corporal · March 28, 1970
- SIDNEY EARL ROHLERCorporal · March 28, 1970
From Acworth
- JAMES THOMAS HUFSTETLERSpecialist Four · June 30, 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.