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EARL SPENCER SNYDER
Corporal · U.S. Army
February 10, 1949 – March 12, 1969
Service recordEarl Spencer Snyder, of Ferndale, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 24
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Ferndale, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 24
- PAUL EDWARD IRVINPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
- HENRY CLYDE SANDERSLance Corporal · March 12, 1969
- ROBERT EUGENE SHAFFERCorporal · March 12, 1969
- SIGMOND MICHAEL SIKORSKISpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ALAN ROGER HOSNEDLEStaff Sergeant · Panel 29W, Line 20
From Ferndale
- CHARLES ANTHONY MARIASergeant · July 3, 1968
- HAROLD BUTLER DEELMaster Sergeant · May 10, 1969
- PAUL JOHN SALMINENSergeant · July 24, 1969
- GEORGE EUGENE SNYDERStaff Sergeant · August 12, 1969
- JOHN THOMAS NOWAKPrivate First Class · March 16, 1970
- ALBERT LEROY LANE JRSpecialist Four · July 16, 1970
- DANNY GEORGE DRINKARDCorporal · April 20, 1971
- GEORGE CHARLES YOSHONISPrivate First Class · May 16, 1971
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.