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EMMETT HARVEY HORN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 10, 1935 – December 23, 1964
Service recordEmmett Harvey Horn, of Vidor, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 78
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 10, 1935
- Home of record
- Vidor, Texas (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1964
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1964. In December 1964, 36 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 78
- HARRY GRIFFITH CRAMERCaptain · October 21, 1957
- ROY ELSWORTH CONGLETONMajor · December 21, 1964
- JOE PARKSSergeant First Class · December 22, 1964
- JAMES ROBERT HAGENLieutenant Colonel · December 24, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
From Vidor
- VANNY CHRIS MAHANAPrivate First Class · February 19, 1967
- DON WAYNE MINTONCorporal · May 4, 1967
- DONALD JEANE SWEATStaff Sergeant · May 4, 1968
- DARRELL LYNN TRUMBLELance Corporal · August 13, 1968
- LEE ALBERT KEITHCorporal · February 23, 1969
- ROBERT WARREN ALVERSON JRSpecialist Four · October 2, 1970
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.