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HARRY LEE ECCARD
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 23, 1937 – April 19, 1967
Service recordHarry Lee Eccard, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 19, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Baker (94D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 23, 1937
- Home of record
- Waynesboro, Pennsylvania (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 19, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 48
- JOSEPH LEONARD COLOTTISpecialist Four · April 19, 1967
- ROBERT JOE COPELance Corporal · April 19, 1967
- GILBERT EDWARDSPrivate First Class · April 19, 1967
- JOHN SMITH HAMILTONColonel · April 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ALFONSO DONATO SIERCHIOSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 51
From Waynesboro
- CHARLES EUGENE BRENNANLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- ERNEST LEROY ROWESergeant · September 25, 1968
- STEPHEN BRIAN PUGHCorporal · September 29, 1968
- THOMAS VICTOR PILSONStaff Sergeant · February 26, 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.