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ERNEST BURTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 22, 1941 – April 30, 1968
Service recordErnest Burton, of Ewing, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 22, 1941
- Home of record
- Ewing, Kentucky (Fleming County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường 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 53E, Line 10
- LARRY FRANKLIN BRASHEARSPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- PATRICK LOUIS BRUCKNERLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- MICHEAL ALLEN BURNSFireman · April 30, 1968
- BENNY DALE CASHPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD MINOT SHELTON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 53E, Line 23
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.