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EMERY NORMAN POITROW
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 26, 1931 – April 9, 1968
Service recordEmery Norman Poitrow, of Ashland, Maine, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 26, 1931
- Home of record
- Ashland, Maine (Aroostook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. 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 49E, Line 5
- JOSEPH RONALD PAULETTESergeant · April 9, 1968
- CHARLIE RAINEYSergeant · April 9, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE REEDPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- JACK RAYMOND REINKESpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES WILLIAM COOPERSpecialist Five · Panel 48E, Line 57
- ROBERT LYNN VANDERMUELENCorporal · Panel 49E, Line 6
From Ashland
- ROBERT EARLE GODINGPrivate First Class · March 3, 1969
- JAMES CRAWFORD SKINNERFirst Sergeant · October 26, 1971
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.