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EDWARD LEE RANKIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 24, 1948 – August 30, 1967
Service recordEdward Lee Rankin, of La Grange, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1967, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 71
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 553 ENG CO 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- January 24, 1948
- Home of record
- La Grange, Kentucky (Oldham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1967; three of them were lost in Darlac Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 71
- HOWARD WARNER JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · August 30, 1967
- EUGENE CARL PACHECOPrivate · August 30, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH PINDERPrivate First Class · August 30, 1967
- ALAN JOHN SMITHSergeant · August 30, 1967
From La Grange
- DENNIS GAYLE HALLSpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
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.