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EDDIE DALE FOSTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 22, 1948 – December 8, 1968
Service recordEddie Dale Foster, of Santa Maria, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 63
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Santa Maria, California (Santa Barbara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 63
- ROBERT PRESTON ENGLISHCorporal · December 8, 1968
- DOUGLAS DALE ESTESSpecialist Four · December 8, 1968
- PAUL QUAMMEN ETTERPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
- FIAPAI FANUA JRPrivate · December 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS DUPREESergeant · Panel 37W, Line 62
- JOHN DAVID HANCOCKSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 65
- CHARLES LENET SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 69
- ARMOUR DAVID WILCOX IIISergeant · Panel 37W, Line 71
From Santa Maria
- RICHARD DAVID SWAYZEPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- THOMAS J ONTIVEROSPrivate First Class · September 28, 1966
- ROBERT BLANCO COWELLPrivate First Class · December 19, 1966
- IRA JAMES SPITTLER IIISpecialist Four · February 5, 1967
- ANTONIO VELASQUEZPrivate First Class · March 24, 1967
- DONALD MARTIN PETERSONSpecialist Four · May 15, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN GIOVANACCISpecialist Four · July 18, 1967
- ELDON WAYNE WILLINGHAMSpecialist Four · August 25, 1967
- DAVID ALAN SCHULTZSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- ALBERT RANDOLPH FOGG IIISpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
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.