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EVERETT JACOB MEESTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 8, 1948 – October 24, 1968
Service recordEverett Jacob Meester, of Mahwah, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Mahwah, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phong Dinh Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 29
- JUAN MASILLOPrivate First Class · October 24, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH MORLEY JRFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1968
- CHARLES LEWIS MOSS JRSpecialist Four · October 24, 1968
- JAMES PATRICK MRAZIKPrivate First Class · October 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID LYNN EVANSSpecialist Four · Panel 40W, Line 28
From Mahwah
- PATRICK JOHN BREMSPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- NORMAN RALPH HETZELSergeant · August 26, 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.