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EMERY LOUIS KOREL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 27, 1943 – June 28, 1969
Service recordEmery Louis Korel, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- September 27, 1943
- Home of record
- Virginia Beach, Virginia (Virginia Beach (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 28, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 28
- WILLIAM CARL DABBERTPrivate First Class · June 28, 1969
- ROGER DALE JENSENSergeant · June 28, 1969
- PATRICK BENJAMIN KEMPKERSpecialist Four · June 28, 1969
- VICTOR MUNOZ ROMANSpecialist Four · June 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES RONALD CASHPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 27
From Virginia Beach
- RALPH WINDALL CARTWRIGHTPrivate First Class · November 15, 1965
- WILLIAM A BURNETTPrivate First Class · December 29, 1965
- MARVIN BONNEY SMITH JRSpecialist Four · January 11, 1966
- ALLEN THOMAS WHEATONPrivate First Class · May 12, 1966
- RONALD EDWARD ANGESpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- DENNIS R BALFOURPrivate First Class · September 10, 1966
- STERLING SADLER WOODSCorporal · May 10, 1967
- OTTO ANDREAE SEAMANS JRWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 1967
- ROBERT THOMAS BOYKINPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- HAROLD EARL YOUNGSpecialist Five · July 27, 1967
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.