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EDDIE LEE WALKER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 30, 1948 – October 19, 1969
Service recordEddie Lee Walker, of Waukegan, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 19, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 92
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)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Waukegan, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 19, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date October 19, 1969; four of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 92
- JIMMY LEE SMITHSpecialist Five · September 28, 1969
- PETER VINCENT MESTASSpecialist Four · October 19, 1969
- ALVIN RAMSEY STOVALL JRSpecialist Five · October 19, 1969
- ROBERT LEE THANELance Corporal · October 19, 1969
- JAMES CLARK WOODSMajor · October 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DAVID PAUL BABEYSpecialist Four · Panel 17W, Line 89
- GERALD JAMES GUILLORYPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 90
- ALLEN FRANCIS KEATINGSpecialist Four · Panel 17W, Line 91
From Waukegan
- WALTER WILLIAM BROWNSpecialist Five · November 5, 1965
- DAVID E BURKESPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- PATRICK JAMES HARRISPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- TERRY ALLEN PATTERSONPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- DANIEL MCCARTHY MANNLieutenant (junior grade) · April 7, 1967
- EDWARD STEVEN SACCOSpecialist Four · July 15, 1967
- PETER JOSEPH CANELAKESPrivate First Class · August 31, 1967
- ERHARDT WILLIAM MATHIESENSergeant · November 22, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · April 18, 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.