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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edgar Snow Doliber.

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EDGAR SNOW DOLIBER

Specialist Six · U.S. Army

October 11, 1919 – May 4, 1966

Service record

Edgar Snow Doliber, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 46. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 24

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Six (SP6)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Powerplant Repairer (68B)
Born
October 11, 1919
Home of record
Marblehead, Massachusetts (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1966
Age
46
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 24

From Marblehead

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.