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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glenn Francis Cashdollar.

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GLENN FRANCIS CASHDOLLAR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 7, 1939 – March 25, 1968

Service record

Glenn Francis Cashdollar, of Reynoldsville, West Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46E · Line 15

Position of Panel 46E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
May 7, 1939
Home of record
Reynoldsville, West Virginia (Harrison County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 25, 1968
Age
28
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.

Also on Panel 46E, Line 15

From Reynoldsville

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.