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HAROLD EDWARD CASHMAN JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 13, 1944 – January 31, 1968
Service recordHarold Edward Cashman JR, of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 2
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- June 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Hatboro, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 24 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36E, Line 2
- ROBERT GLEN CHENAULTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JOHN LEONARD CHURCHSergeant First Class · January 31, 1968
- LARRY RAYMOND CLEMONSLance Corporal · January 31, 1968
- ALFRED JOHN LEWISPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARCHIE BURNETTE JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 89
- WYATT CECIL GORDONSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 4
- GARY W HANNAWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 12
- LLOYD ALLEN HIMESSergeant Major · Panel 36E, Line 15
- RICHARD FALCON DELGADOSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 21
- WILLIAM ROBERT LEEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 21
- DAVID LLOYD PARKERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 29
- DAMON LIGOURI RITCHIECorporal · Panel 36E, Line 32
- DAVID OWEN ROBERTSSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 33
- CLIFTON DOUGLAS ROYCorporal · Panel 36E, Line 33
- DAVID LEE TURNERCorporal · Panel 36E, Line 40
- MELVIN JOE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 42
From Hatboro
- JAMES PATRICK KELLYSecond Lieutenant · September 27, 1965
- RONALD CARLTON SMITHSpecialist Four · April 14, 1968
- JOSEPH LANNON JRPrivate First Class · October 1, 1968
- ROBERT RICHARD WRIGHT JRFirst Lieutenant · October 21, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN AHLUMCaptain · March 23, 1969
- ROBERT PRESTON RUTTLE JRSpecialist Four · June 5, 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.