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EDDIE DUANE ACUFF
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 12, 1948 – June 23, 1969
Service recordEddie Duane Acuff, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 115
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Surveyor (82C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- September 12, 1948
- Home of record
- San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1969; six of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 115
- JEROME PAUL ZINDLEPrivate First Class · June 22, 1969
- DAVID PAUL ACHORDPrivate First Class · June 23, 1969
- EARL ERNEST ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · June 23, 1969
- KENNETH TERRY ANDERSONPrivate · June 23, 1969
From San Antonio
- JOHN DUARTEPrivate First Class · January 20, 1963
- ROBERT LOUIS RAGSDALESecond Lieutenant · June 26, 1964
- DELBERT LEE VAUGHN JRStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- ARTHUR DALE BAKERMajor · April 7, 1965
- JESSE RODRIQUEZ ACOSTAStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- RUDOLPH VILLALP HERNANDEZPrivate · July 7, 1965
- VIRGIL GALAN CRUZLance Corporal · September 28, 1965
- ROBERT WAYNE WRANOSKYCaptain · December 7, 1965
- BILLIE JACK CARTWRIGHTCaptain · December 12, 1965
- JOSE ANTONIO GUTIERREZSpecialist Four · January 28, 1966
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.