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EDWARD MCNALLY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 2, 1946 – January 31, 1968
Service recordEdward McNally, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 26
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 69 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- July 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Cheyenne, Wyoming (Laramie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; five of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HHC 69 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Phong Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 26
- JUAN BAUT MORALES-MERCADOPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT MORRISPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- WALTER MICHAEL MURPHYMajor · January 31, 1968
- MICHAEL VAN MURRAYPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GHALIB AHMED ABDULLAHCorporal · Panel 35E, Line 84
- JAMES RICHARD MCCLINTOCKSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 27
From Cheyenne
- ROBERT FRED GUTHRIEPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1966
- MICHAEL RAY BECKPrivate First Class · March 28, 1966
- WILLIAM BERTUS ESSLINGERPrivate First Class · June 1, 1967
- LAWRENCE DANIEL TORREZLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- FRANK MAXWELL DARLINGPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- JOSEPH ANTHONY PADILLASpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- EDWARD RAYMOND BRAUNPrivate First Class · July 21, 1968
- DENNIS BARRY FARRISPrivate First Class · January 12, 1969
- JOHN WILLIAM KOBELIN IICorporal · March 6, 1969
- ERNEST CLAUDE BALLANDStaff Sergeant · May 25, 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.