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EARL TIMOTHY PELHAM JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 10, 1928 – June 20, 1968
Service recordEarl Timothy Pelham JR, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 8
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 10, 1928
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phong Dinh Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 8
- MARVIN RAYMOND MCCAIN JRStaff Sergeant · June 20, 1968
- ROBERT LEWIS MCGEE JRSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
- HAROLD NORMAN MINNIEARLance Corporal · June 20, 1968
- TERRY LEE PARSONSPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD FRANCIS GENTILECorporal · Panel 55W, Line 5
- GREGORY MARK ROSSSergeant · Panel 55W, Line 9
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 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.