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EDWARD CARL DEBOW
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 12, 1946 – March 18, 1969
Service recordEdward Carl Debow, of Linesville, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Linesville, Pennsylvania (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 67
- LARRY KENT DAVISSpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- THOMAS MITCHELL DEITZStaff Sergeant · March 18, 1969
- LEONARD DODSONSpecialist Five · March 18, 1969
- JOE BUTLER EASTERNPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
From Linesville
- JOHN EUGENE REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · August 7, 1968
- TERRY LEE BECKPetty Officer Third Class · October 2, 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.