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EDWARD ARTHUR ZAGER
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
January 11, 1945 – April 9, 1968
Service recordEdward Arthur Zager, of Arcadia, California, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 7
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- January 11, 1945
- Home of record
- Arcadia, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 7
- GREGORY J WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- WILLIE GENE WILSONSergeant · April 9, 1968
- ROBERT HELM WOODCorporal · April 9, 1968
- DANIEL LEVERNE ACKERMANSergeant · April 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SALVATORE AGRI JRPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 56
- THOMAS FRANCIS DAZEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 57
- DENNIS WAYNE REEDPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 5
From Arcadia
- RODNEY WILLARD CASSELMANPrivate First Class · August 4, 1966
- CRAIG RAY SCHOENBAUMSpecialist Four · June 9, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARDS CAMPBELLFirst Lieutenant · June 21, 1967
- RICHARD RAY IRWIN JRPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- VAUGHN MAURICE HINESPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- EUGENE STANLEY HICKSSpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- ROGER ALLEN BOOMSMAPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- JAMES CARL FOXPrivate First Class · March 30, 1969
- JAMES ANDREW LEACHPrivate First Class · April 24, 1969
- PATRICK MICHAEL WARDCaptain · September 11, 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.