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EARL RUSSELL GROVE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 5, 1945 – April 10, 1967
Service recordEarl Russell Grove, of Little Falls, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- August 5, 1945
- Home of record
- Little Falls, Minnesota (Morrison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 9
- CHRISTOPHER CRONKHITEPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
- JAMES HERBERT EDWARDSSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- DAVID R FISHERSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- JAMES WILBUR FOSTERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES WILBUR FOSTERPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 9
- CHARLES J HOFFMANN IIISpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 10
From Little Falls
- GERALD LEONARD KALISSpecialist Four · June 6, 1970
- LYLE ARCHIE KLOEKSpecialist Four · July 22, 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.