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EDUARD ADOLPH AUER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 25, 1938 – September 19, 1967
Service recordEduard Adolph Auer, of Mansfield, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 19, 1967, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 91
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 25, 1938
- Home of record
- Mansfield, Ohio (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 19, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date September 19, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26E, Line 91
- MICHAEL LEE BAUMPrivate First Class · September 19, 1967
- GABRIEL BETANCOURTPrivate First Class · September 19, 1967
- ROBERT LARRY BLOUNTPrivate First Class · September 19, 1967
- CLYDE WALTER CARTERCaptain · September 19, 1967
From Mansfield
- LUTHER EDMOND RITCHEY JRLance Corporal · October 8, 1963
- TYRONE WADE HISEYWarrant Officer 1 · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES MICHAEL TODDPrivate First Class · November 8, 1966
- STANLEY RICHARD GLEISINGERCorporal · November 26, 1966
- ROBERT FRANK RATHBUNPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- WILLIAM THEODORE NORRISSpecialist Five · March 17, 1967
- MICHAEL HENRY JULIANPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- ROBERT LEE FUQUA JRPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- WILLIAM DOUGLAS REEVES JRPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- RICHARD EARL MEHLPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
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.