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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edward Lee Glover.

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EDWARD LEE GLOVER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

April 3, 1947 – March 30, 1968

Service record

Edward Lee Glover, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 30, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47E · Line 10

Position of Panel 47E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
Born
April 3, 1947
Home of record
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 30, 1968
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 47E, Line 10

From Oklahoma City

All 159 names from Oklahoma City →

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.