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EDWARD STEPHEN OBRIEN
Seaman · U.S. Navy
November 12, 1945 – December 4, 1967
Service recordEdward Stephen Obrien, of Woburn, Massachusetts, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 4, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 37
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. Navy
- Rank
- Seaman (SN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Seaman (SN)
- Born
- November 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Woburn, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 31E, Line 37
- WOLFGANG TONY OTTO MOHLSpecialist Five · December 4, 1967
- ROBERT JOHN MORASFireman · December 4, 1967
- WILLIAM FRANCIS MOSELEYPrivate First Class · December 4, 1967
- CHARLES GLENN SCHNEGGCorporal · December 4, 1967
From Woburn
- JOSEPH LAWRENCE DREWPrivate First Class · December 27, 1965
- WILLIAM COOLEYSergeant · February 9, 1966
- RUSSELL WILLIS NOYESLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- CHARLES LEO ONEILL JRCorporal · July 19, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GERRISHHospitalman · September 7, 1968
- JOHN RALPH FRONGILLOWarrant Officer 1 · May 17, 1969
- DAVID EDWARD KENNEYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWARD MCCORMACKPrivate · September 2, 1969
- CHARLES MCMAHON JRCorporal · April 29, 1975
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.