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EDWARD LAMONT HANDY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 5, 1945 – February 20, 1969
Service recordEdward Lamont Handy, of Salem, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 65
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 5, 1945
- Home of record
- Salem, Oregon (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 44 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 65
- DENNIS WRAY CRIPELance Corporal · February 20, 1969
- MANFRED WILLY FITZGERALDSergeant · February 20, 1969
- FRANK ROBERT HOWEPrivate First Class · February 20, 1969
- EARNEST LEE KAUFFMANPrivate First Class · February 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ANDREW LEE MILLSSpecialist Five · Panel 32W, Line 66
From Salem
- DELBERT CHARLES LAFLEMMESpecialist Four · October 7, 1964
- ELVIS GORDON BARKERCaptain · March 1, 1965
- DAVID ALLEN MORGANStaff Sergeant · September 23, 1965
- DAVID GORDON RUSSELLLance Corporal · April 2, 1966
- THEODORE JAMES SHORACK JRMajor · June 9, 1966
- ROBERT GRAHAM NOPPLieutenant Colonel · July 14, 1966
- JOHN DOUGLAS CAREYPrivate First Class · July 16, 1966
- GERALD WALLACE EVENHUSPrivate First Class · September 16, 1966
- DAREL LEE SILLSSpecialist Four · October 13, 1966
- LARRY RAY FOSTERPrivate First Class · July 14, 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.