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HAROLD PHILLIP GRASSER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 31, 1947 – August 30, 1968
Service recordHarold Phillip Grasser, of Manns Choice, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1968, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 11
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Manns Choice, Pennsylvania (Bedford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Go Cong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1968; four of them were lost in Go Cong Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 11
- GERALD WAYNE VANDONKELAARCorporal · August 30, 1968
- JIMMY WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- DAVID LEWIS WILSONPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD WOLFE JRFirst Lieutenant · August 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANNY LEE BITNERCorporal · Panel 45W, Line 4
- JAMES ALBERT DALTONSpecialist Four · Panel 45W, Line 5
- GARY WAYNE MORGANSpecialist Four · Panel 45W, Line 8
- FRANK SOLIS PORTERCorporal · Panel 45W, Line 9
- ROBERT SIDNEY ROBERSON JRSergeant · Panel 45W, Line 9
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.