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EDWARD JOSEPH SCALISE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 28, 1936 – December 21, 1968
Service recordEdward Joseph Scalise, of Palo Alto, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 59
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 28, 1936
- Home of record
- Palo Alto, California (Santa Clara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 59
- JAMES FELIX RUMMAGECorporal · December 21, 1968
- EDWARD SALONIES JRPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
- ELMER GERALD SIKORSKIStaff Sergeant · December 21, 1968
- EARL WILLIAM THOMAS JRPrivate · December 21, 1968
From Palo Alto
- GORDON LEE PAGEColonel · March 7, 1966
- RODNEY CLEVELAND UPCHURCHPrivate First Class · July 29, 1966
- ROGER C HALLBERGSergeant First Class · March 24, 1967
- KIERAN JOHN STARRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1967
- DAVID JOHN UCKERLance Corporal · October 11, 1967
- RICHARD ARLAN STONESergeant · November 6, 1967
- DON PRIENSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- MICHAEL DURYEA LEEPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- JOHN DENIS PETERSCorporal · May 29, 1968
- PAUL ROSARIO LOFORTIWarrant Officer 1 · November 23, 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.