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EDGAR DEWAYNE BELL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 18, 1947 – March 17, 1968
Service recordEdgar Dewayne Bell, of Perkins, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 17, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Perkins, Oklahoma (Payne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 7
- TERRY ZIMMERMANSergeant · March 16, 1968
- DENNIS JAMES ZWIRCHITZPrivate First Class · March 16, 1968
- THOMAS DAVID BARBERAirman · March 17, 1968
- LAWRENCE ALPHONSE GRENHAMSergeant · March 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE ALPHONSE GRENHAMSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 7
- RALPH ALTON BRANSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 8
- LEON HENDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 11
From Perkins
- ROY BROWN PARSONSChief Warrant Officer 2 · February 20, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD TOMLINSONSpecialist Four · March 4, 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.