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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Egbert R Vaughan.

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EGBERT R VAUGHAN

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

November 22, 1944 – May 4, 1968

Service record

Egbert R Vaughan, of Alpharetta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54E · Line 41

Position of Panel 54E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Five (SP5)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Surveyor (82C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 22, 1944
Home of record
Alpharetta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 160 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 54E, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Alpharetta

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.