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ELIE EDWARD SWARTZLANDER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 10, 1944 – November 18, 1968
Service recordElie Edward Swartzlander, of Hoxie, Arkansas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 9
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 10, 1944
- Home of record
- Hoxie, Arkansas (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 18, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 9
- IGNACIO SANCHEZSergeant First Class · November 18, 1968
- DWIGHT JOSEPH TAYLORLance Corporal · November 18, 1968
- HERMAN W O WRIGHT JRLance Corporal · November 18, 1968
- CHARLES FREDERICK ABENECaptain · November 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DALE WILLIAM JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 38W, Line 7
From Hoxie
- MICHAEL CLAY HALSTEADCorporal · December 19, 1965
- DON W BONNERSpecialist Four · December 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.