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EDWARD CURTIS MCHENRY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 7, 1946 – December 21, 1968
Service recordEdward Curtis McHenry, of Oak Lawn, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 57
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Oak Lawn, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 57
- ROBERT HOWARD INGRAMSpecialist Four · December 21, 1968
- SYLVESTER JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
- MICHAEL JAY MCDONALDPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
- JOHN BIGELOW MOORESecond Lieutenant · December 21, 1968
From Oak Lawn
- TERRENCE LEE SOUHRADAPrivate First Class · February 23, 1966
- STEPHEN FRANK JALLOWAYSergeant · December 15, 1966
- JOHN DANIEL GILGENBERGLance Corporal · May 10, 1967
- WARREN OWINGS KENEIPP JRCaptain · July 2, 1967
- BERNARD FRANCIS FORDAirman First Class · July 5, 1967
- BOBBY DANIEL MATHENYStaff Sergeant · February 10, 1968
- JOSEPH SALVATORE PERYSIANSeaman · March 14, 1968
- RONALD LEE ZACHSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- THOMAS STEPHEN COLELance Corporal · April 27, 1968
- WILLIAM HARLEY GIBBS JRPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
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.