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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ernest Ervin English.

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ERNEST ERVIN ENGLISH

Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 8, 1945 – April 24, 1970

Service record

Ernest Ervin English, of Annona, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 24, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11W · Line 44

Position of Panel 11W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
June 8, 1945
Home of record
Annona, Texas (Red River County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 24, 1970
Age
24
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date April 24, 1970; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 11W, Line 44

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.