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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edward Jeffrey Baker.

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EDWARD JEFFREY BAKER

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

April 30, 1948 – April 3, 1970

Service record

Edward Jeffrey Baker, of Rapids City, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 3, 1970, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12W · Line 86

Position of Panel 12W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Born
April 30, 1948
Home of record
Rapids City, Illinois (Rock Island County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 3, 1970
Age
21
Province
Chau Doc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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23 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1970; three of them were lost in Chau Doc Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 12W, Line 86

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.