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ERNEST MACK SKINNER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 15, 1945 – April 20, 1967
Service recordErnest Mack Skinner, of Ontonagon, Michigan, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 15, 1945
- Home of record
- Ontonagon, Michigan (Ontonagon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 54
- WILLIAM RAYMOND LUNDBERGSpecialist Four · April 20, 1967
- PHILIP GENE OVERTURFPrivate · April 20, 1967
- RODIS JOHN WARRENSergeant First Class · April 20, 1967
- LARRY WAYNE WILKERSONPrivate First Class · April 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE TYRUS BEANSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 52
- WILLIAM RAYMOND LUNDBERGSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 54
- RODIS JOHN WARRENSergeant First Class · Panel 18E, Line 54
From Ontonagon
- WILLIAM RAYMOND LUNDBERGSpecialist Four · April 20, 1967
- GLEN RAY BECKPrivate First Class · June 1, 1968
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.