The Wall › Panel 25E › Illinois › Harvie G Smith
HARVIE G SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 26, 1945 – August 30, 1967
Service recordHarvie G Smith, of St Anne, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1967, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 72
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 67 ENG CO 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- February 26, 1945
- Home of record
- St Anne, Illinois (Kankakee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “67 ENG CO 34 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 72
- ALFRED JAMES SMITHCorporal · August 30, 1967
- CHARLES DANNIE TURNBOUGHLance Corporal · August 30, 1967
- CHARLES ROBERT WILKERSONSergeant First Class · August 30, 1967
- JACK WILLIAM WILKINSONPetty Officer First Class · August 30, 1967
Same unit, same day
- REGINALD ALLAN MUNDYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 25E, Line 70
From St Anne
- GALEN LEROY ARSENEAUMaster Sergeant · March 3, 1967
- OTTAWAY LARSON WILLIAMSSergeant · December 12, 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.