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EDWARD EARL SCHELL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 7, 1946 – February 6, 1967
Service recordEdward Earl Schell, of Saginaw, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 1
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Saginaw, Michigan (Saginaw County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 107 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 1
- RICHARD DEWITT B SHEPHERDFirst Lieutenant · February 6, 1967
- CHRISTOPHER SCOTT SIGMANSpecialist Four · February 6, 1967
- VICTOR GENE SPRAYSpecialist Four · February 6, 1967
- PATRICK HARDY WOODColonel · February 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- SYDNEY UEL GOODINSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 128
- GORDON WILLIAM STARKSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 2
- CARLOS UGARTEPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 2
From Saginaw
- BRICKIE BOWMAN JRPrivate · May 23, 1965
- PAUL HAMILTON JRSergeant · October 3, 1965
- HEZEKIAH GOSS JRSpecialist Five · January 15, 1966
- ROBERT ALLEN KOWALSKICorporal · January 25, 1966
- TERRY R MCLEANStaff Sergeant · April 2, 1966
- WILLIAM JOSEPH COXPrivate First Class · October 13, 1966
- MILES DENNIS COOPERPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- JOHN ROBERT CUSHMANSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- STANLEY FOSTER BARRETTPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
- RICHARD J LOISELLEPrivate First Class · May 10, 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.