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ESMOND EMERSON SNELL JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 18, 1943 – April 16, 1968
Service recordEsmond Emerson Snell JR, of Berkeley, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 16, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (2162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 18, 1943
- Home of record
- Berkeley, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 16, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 22
- DONALD C SMITHSergeant · April 16, 1968
- ERNEST WILLIAM SMITHSpecialist Four · April 16, 1968
- SAMMY RAY SMITHSergeant · April 16, 1968
- NATHANIEL MEARLO WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAY ANTHONY PRICEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 50E, Line 16
From Berkeley
- ZOLTAN ALAJOS KOVACSWarrant Officer 1 · June 10, 1965
- DONALD HUBERT BROWN JRLieutenant (junior grade) · August 12, 1965
- WINFIELD WADE SISSONColonel · October 18, 1965
- PHILIP MICHAEL CALLANPrivate First Class · October 4, 1966
- KENNETH ROBBINS CAMERONCaptain · May 18, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES HARECorporal · June 17, 1967
- CHARLES RICHARD MULLAN JRHospitalman · June 28, 1967
- DONALD LEROY GASSERPrivate First Class · August 29, 1967
- ALLEN HIDEO HARANOPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- JAMES OSCAR WESTPrivate First Class · March 31, 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.