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EDGAR WILLIAM BLANKENSHIP
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 5, 1947 – March 13, 1968
Service recordEdgar William Blankenship, of Lewisburg, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- September 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Lewisburg, Ohio (Preble County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Long Khanh 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 44E, Line 32
- RALPH LEVON WASHINGTONLance Corporal · March 12, 1968
- KENNETH MAURICE WATKINSLance Corporal · March 12, 1968
- JAMES LOUIS BUCHYPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- LYTELL B CHRISTIANStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1968
From Lewisburg
- EDWARD MICHAEL DENNULLSpecialist Four · July 21, 1969
- WILLIAM HARRY HANDSergeant · August 20, 1969
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.