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EDWARD JOHN GINTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 30, 1946 – February 26, 1967
Service recordEdward John Ginter, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 95
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Greensburg, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 26, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1967; 14 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.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 95
- VINCENT JUNIOR CANNIZZAROPrivate First Class · February 26, 1967
- THEODORE H DAVISStaff Sergeant · February 26, 1967
- ROBERT JOSEPH GOLDSpecialist Four · February 26, 1967
- ROBERT LEON HARVEYSpecialist Four · February 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN K DAVISStaff Sergeant · Panel 15E, Line 94
- ROBERT JOSEPH GOLDSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 95
- WARREN FRANCIS MUHRPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 98
- DONALD L PENDERSergeant · Panel 15E, Line 99
From Greensburg
- ROBERT EARL STAUFFERSergeant · June 20, 1967
- TIMOTHY MORGAN DICKCorporal · December 11, 1967
- JOHN MICHAEL GALATAPrivate First Class · January 6, 1968
- RICHARD IVORY CULLENSergeant · May 23, 1968
- CHARLES KENTON BURKART JRLance Corporal · June 22, 1968
- VINCENT PISCAR JRLance Corporal · July 19, 1968
- GEORGE ROBERT GARRISPrivate · March 15, 1969
- FRED DEAN HIGHBERGER JRSergeant · October 26, 1969
- MICHAEL STEPHEN HRUTKAYPrivate First Class · November 8, 1969
- LARRY DALE PALMERSpecialist Four · February 20, 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.