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ERNEST SEICHI SAKAI
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 17, 1940 – June 19, 1968
Service recordErnest Seichi Sakai, of Hawi, Hawaii, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 1
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Hawi, Hawaii (Hawaii County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 19, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 1
- MICHAEL EUGENE PROTHEROPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- ANDREW GUS RICHARDPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- GEOFFREY THOMAS ROWSONLance Corporal · June 19, 1968
- MICHAEL VINCENT SORTERSergeant · June 19, 1968
From Hawi
- SAMUEL K SOLOMON JRFirst Sergeant · November 3, 1966
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.