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EMORY MOREL SMITH
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 6, 1948 – June 13, 1968
Service recordEmory Morel Smith, of Sylvania, Georgia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 13
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
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- May 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Sylvania, Georgia (Screven County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 13
- JAMES ROSS RICHMONDPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- CRAIG LEE SEIDELSpecialist Four · June 13, 1968
- JOE ANTHONY SNITKOPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- PORFIRIO SAM SOLANOStaff Sergeant · June 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SEFERINO ALBAREZ JRPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 7
- ROBERT WAYNE WERLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 15
From Sylvania
- NEWMAN RAY NESMITHPrivate First Class · December 12, 1963
- JOE CLEVELAND BERRYCorporal · September 24, 1968
- RUSSELL EVANSCorporal · May 31, 1969
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.