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EDWIN LEWIS CAHALL
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
May 28, 1931 – June 9, 1968
Service recordEdwin Lewis Cahall, of Bartow, Florida, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 7
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
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- May 28, 1931
- Home of record
- Bartow, Florida (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 7
- JOSEPH MICHAEL CHEARNLEYPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
- PATRICK BRIAN COPPOSergeant · June 9, 1968
- NATHANIEL CUMMINGSSpecialist Four · June 9, 1968
- WILLIAM MICHAEL DRAPERStaff Sergeant · June 9, 1968
From Bartow
- DONALD COLES WOODRUFFCaptain · July 20, 1966
- ALVIN GENE HILLSergeant · June 22, 1967
- JAMES F FUQUASpecialist Four · February 13, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT ADAMSSecond Lieutenant · March 20, 1968
- FRED RICHARD GLOVERSpecialist Four · April 3, 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.