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EDWARD VINCENT ASIP
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 18, 1947 – May 8, 1967
Service recordEdward Vincent Asip, of Amityville, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 8, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 55
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Amityville, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1967; 45 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 55
- KENNETH VARSALL AVERYPrivate First Class · May 8, 1967
- JON DOUGLAS BAKERFirst Lieutenant · May 8, 1967
- WILLIAM CEACON BLADES IIILance Corporal · May 8, 1967
- JOHN HENRY BOUDREAUCorporal · May 8, 1967
From Amityville
- TYRONE SIDNEY PANNELLSecond Lieutenant · November 30, 1965
- WOODROW WILLIAM ADAMSPrivate First Class · February 22, 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.
