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EVERDENE BAKER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 17, 1946 – June 7, 1967
Service recordEverdene Baker JR, of Zebulon, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 7, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Zebulon, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1967; six of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 95 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 65
- JAMES LUJAN BLAZLance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER JRSecond Lieutenant · June 7, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH CHASELance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- HARRIS VONZELL DAVISSpecialist Four · June 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HARRIS VONZELL DAVISSpecialist Four · Panel 21E, Line 65
- WILLIAM LARRY EVANSSpecialist Four · Panel 21E, Line 66
- REX ALFRED LADUKEPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 69
- LUIS ENRE MILAN-ANAVITARTEPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 69
- KENNETH PURCELL NEWTONSergeant · Panel 21E, Line 70
From Zebulon
- LESSIE KEITH STRICKLANDSergeant · August 18, 1965
- ALTON DURHAM PRICEPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- ISIAH BARNES JRCorporal · February 3, 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.