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EDWARD BURKE BURDETT
Brigadier General · U.S. Air Force
March 10, 1921 – November 18, 1967
Service recordEdward Burke Burdett, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on November 18, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 13
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Brigadier General (BGEN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Air Commander (0066)
- Born
- March 10, 1921
- Home of record
- Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- November 18, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 30E, Line 13
- DOUGLAS BRUCE BAUMSergeant · November 18, 1967
- ERWIN BEEKSpecialist Four · November 18, 1967
- DAVID T BROOKSStaff Sergeant · November 18, 1967
- LAWRENCE DEAN BROWNOTTERCorporal · November 18, 1967
From Macon
- EDDIE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- RALPH LEON HINSONStaff Sergeant · December 17, 1965
- HAZE HOWARD IIISpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- JIMMY ALVIN JOHNSONSergeant · September 23, 1966
- WAYNE THAD STRICKLANDCorporal · September 24, 1966
- WILLIAM SHERWOOD COCHRANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- RALLS HAWKINSPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- SANDY LEE ROSSPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · March 9, 1967
- FRANKLIN DWIGHT RUISPrivate First Class · March 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.