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GUY LEE EISENHART
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
September 27, 1946 – March 8, 1968
Service recordGuy Lee Eisenhart, of Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 53
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- September 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; nine of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường 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 43E, Line 53
- WILLIAM C DELAPP IIILieutenant Colonel · March 8, 1968
- TIMOTHY FULLERCorporal · March 8, 1968
- RICHARD GALLAGHERLance Corporal · March 8, 1968
- JACK EUGENE GORBEYStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN DOUGLAS BEAVERPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 51
- CHARLES B JILCOTT JRCaptain · Panel 43E, Line 55
From Lake Ariel
- WILLIAM WILBUR JRCorporal · May 30, 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.