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ELDON ALLEN BAKER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 16, 1947 – April 26, 1968
Service recordEldon Allen Baker, of Frankfort, Indiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 13
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Frankfort, Indiana (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 13
- DALLAS TYLER ADAIR JRCorporal · April 26, 1968
- ANJELO JOSEPH APRILLIANOSpecialist Six · April 26, 1968
- MICHAEL JOSEPH BALITCHIKSeaman · April 26, 1968
- GEORGE ROGERS BENNETTSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DALLAS TYLER ADAIR JRCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 13
- HARRIS LESTER COLLINSCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 15
- WILLIAM F VANDERVORT JRSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 26
From Frankfort
- DENNIS EUGENE HILLPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- BENJAMIN THOMAS FOLCKSpecialist Four · May 19, 1968
- GREGORY STAN MUNDELLPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- DONNIE JOE MARTINSergeant · March 15, 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.