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EDWIN DOUGLAS CONNELL
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 4, 1946 – April 8, 1968
Service recordEdwin Douglas Connell, of Hickory, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 8, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 52
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Hickory, North Carolina (Catawba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 48E, Line 52
- HERBERT TERRELL CROSSSecond Lieutenant · April 8, 1968
- CHARLES MATHEW DUTTONSpecialist Five · April 8, 1968
- STANFORD MORRIS GOUGHSpecialist Four · April 8, 1968
- ALLEN EBERLY GROSHONGHospitalman · April 8, 1968
From Hickory
- PAUL EDWARD RUDEEN JRFirst Lieutenant · August 24, 1965
- LARRY EUGENE FOWLERLance Corporal · February 22, 1967
- JAMES LEE ROSSLance Corporal · February 28, 1967
- MCCLURE THACKERSONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- RONALD LEE CROOKSCorporal · June 7, 1967
- STEVE MONROE SUMMERLINLance Corporal · October 26, 1967
- JERRY W BRANNOCKPrivate First Class · December 11, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD DEESE JRCorporal · February 26, 1968
- EUGENE HARRISPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- COYTE DAVID CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
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.