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HARVEY TYRONE PINKNEY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 26, 1948 – January 13, 1970
Service recordHarvey Tyrone Pinkney, of Lothian, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 13, 1970, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 31
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Lothian, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 13, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1970; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 31
- ROBERT GLEN POTTERSpecialist Five · January 13, 1970
- MARK PHILLIP RUDOLFSergeant · January 13, 1970
- STEPHEN GEORGE SAMPLESpecialist Four · January 13, 1970
- GLENN ERNEST TUBBSStaff Sergeant · January 13, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ANDRUS JAMES BLANCHARDSpecialist Four · Panel 14W, Line 30
From Lothian
- LAWRENCE ARNOLD DAVISSergeant · July 18, 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.