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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Grady Lee Elder.

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GRADY LEE ELDER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 11, 1936 – June 11, 1966

Service record

Grady Lee Elder, of Grantville, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 36

Position of Panel 8E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
May 11, 1936
Home of record
Grantville, Georgia (Coweta County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1966
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 113 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 36

Same unit, same day

From Grantville

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.