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EDWARD ALVA SHARROCK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 21, 1947 – March 23, 1968
Service recordEdward Alva Sharrock, of Bucyrus, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 1
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Bucyrus, Ohio (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 46E, Line 1
- WILLIAM RONALD PHILLIPSSeaman · March 23, 1968
- JOSEPH MICHAEL ROMEROLance Corporal · March 23, 1968
- WILLIAM MICHAEL SAUNDERSPrivate First Class · March 23, 1968
- DANNY EUGENE TUCKERPrivate First Class · March 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS EDWARD DONOVANPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 62
- RAYMOND ROBERT JORDANPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 63
- THOMAS YORK REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 2
From Bucyrus
- ELIJAH HENRY SMITHSergeant · March 23, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD COLLENEPrivate First Class · May 12, 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.