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ELEANOR GRACE ALEXANDER
Captain · U.S. Army
September 18, 1940 – November 30, 1967
Service recordEleanor Grace Alexander, of River Vale, New Jersey, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. She died on November 30, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. Her name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 8
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Operating Room Nurse (3443)
- Born
- September 18, 1940
- Home of record
- River Vale, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1967
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 23 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 8
- WARD GUNARD WALTERSergeant · November 29, 1967
- ROBERT THOMAS ABINAPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- PETER NEWELL ANDERSONSergeant · November 30, 1967
- THOMAS LESLIE SNIDER BALLLance Corporal · November 30, 1967
From River Vale
- ROBERT HENRY RANGES JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 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 her yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.