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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ervin Lee Condreay.

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ERVIN LEE CONDREAY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 21, 1947 – September 17, 1967

Service record

Ervin Lee Condreay, of Greeley, Colorado, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 82

Position of Panel 26E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 21, 1947
Home of record
Greeley, Colorado (Weld County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 17, 1967
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26E, Line 82

Same unit, same day

From Greeley

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.