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ERVIN PRESTON CANOY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 20, 1945 – December 1, 1968
Service recordErvin Preston Canoy JR, of Moorhead, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 1, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Moorhead, Mississippi (Sunflower County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1968; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 16
- THOMAS EARL ALFORD IIIPrivate First Class · December 1, 1968
- CURTIS RAY CRUMPrivate First Class · December 1, 1968
- FREDERICK LOUIS GRUBERSpecialist Four · December 1, 1968
- ROGER ALLEN HOLTECorporal · December 1, 1968
From Moorhead
- WARREN LEE TALLSpecialist Four · March 2, 1968
- WILLIAM NAPOLEON LAGRONESergeant First Class · August 16, 1969
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.