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EARL W HIMES
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 10, 1945 – March 5, 1969
Service recordEarl W Himes, of Spring City, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1969, in Laos, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 45
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- October 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Spring City, Pennsylvania (Chester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 30W, Line 45
- DAVID CHARLES FERGUSONSecond Lieutenant · March 5, 1969
- EDWARD ROBERT HICKEYFirst Lieutenant · March 5, 1969
- DAVID PAUL JACOBSSpecialist Four · March 5, 1969
- GARY FAY ROLFESergeant · March 5, 1969
Same unit, same day
- SANDERFIERD ALLEN JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 46
From Spring City
- EMERSON E HELLERLieutenant Colonel · April 25, 1969
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.