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EDWARD SMITH JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 3, 1943 – January 23, 1969
Service recordEdward Smith JR, of Steele, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 68
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)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 3, 1943
- Home of record
- Steele, Missouri (Pemiscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1969; seven of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 68
- ROBERTO RUIZ-PEREZPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
- ARVID OSCAR SILVERBERG JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 23, 1969
- ROBERT ROYCE SLOPPYEPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
- BENEDICT JOHN TRIPODOCorporal · January 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEE LUSTERStaff Sergeant · Panel 34W, Line 65
- FRANK DAVID MOORMANStaff Sergeant · Panel 34W, Line 66
From Steele
- OTIS LEE ALLENPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- JOE ROSCOE BOSWELLStaff Sergeant · January 25, 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.