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HAROLD BURTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 6, 1946 – November 21, 1967
Service recordHarold Burton, of Rural Hall, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 54
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Rural Hall, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 30E, Line 54
- GARY MAURICE BRIXENStaff Sergeant · November 21, 1967
- RODGER KENNETH CAINSpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
- MONROE WARD CROSSSergeant · November 21, 1967
- DAVID LEE EATONSpecialist Four · November 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES RALPH ACHESONPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 52
- THOMAS GERARD BRADYSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 53
From Rural Hall
- JIMMY RUSSELL SPACHPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- JAMES LEWIS SHEFFPrivate First Class · May 11, 1971
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.