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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Elijah Waters.

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ELIJAH WATERS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 16, 1946 – December 14, 1967

Service record

Elijah Waters, of Snow Hill, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 95

Position of Panel 31E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
June 16, 1946
Home of record
Snow Hill, North Carolina (Greene County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 14, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 95

Same unit, same day

From Snow Hill

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.