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EDWARD CHARLES MCGRATH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 19, 1946 – October 6, 1967
Service recordEdward Charles McGrath, of Crestview, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 6, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 60
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Crestview, Florida (Okaloosa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1967; nine of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 60
- MICHAEL STEPHEN GOZDANSecond Lieutenant · October 6, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD LEWISSergeant · October 6, 1967
- DON WILLIAM LINTHICUMPrivate First Class · October 6, 1967
- PAUL ANTHONY OESTREICHERSpecialist Four · October 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GALE ARTHUR ALLDRIDGESergeant · Panel 27E, Line 56
- DAVID BRANTLEY ALTMANSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 57
- GABRIEL BACAPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 57
- DANNY DALE BURKHEADSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 57
- CHARLES WILLIAM DAVISFirst Lieutenant · Panel 27E, Line 58
- DON WILLIAM LINTHICUMPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 60
- TJEERD SCHOELIERSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 61
- PAUL RICHARD SIMONPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 61
- THEODORE NELSON TAKACS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 62
From Crestview
- BOBBY G MASONSergeant · October 8, 1965
- JOHNNY WAYNE GOULDStaff Sergeant · April 17, 1967
- CHARLES MICHAEL CHESSHERPrivate First Class · May 24, 1968
- JAMES HAYES HALLCorporal · November 30, 1968
- HOLLEY DEWITT MATTHEWSStaff Sergeant · January 16, 1969
- PAUL EDWIN STROUSEPrivate First Class · March 6, 1969
- ROLAND FORREST DIPOLOPrivate First Class · June 11, 1969
- FREDERICK LEE FIELDSSpecialist Four · November 30, 1970
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.