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HENRY ELLWOOD PEARCE II
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
April 3, 1949 – January 23, 1969
Service recordHenry Ellwood Pearce II, of Stanhope, New Jersey, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 23, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 67
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- April 3, 1949
- Home of record
- Stanhope, New Jersey (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 67
- JERRY ALLEN PALMERPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
- HERBERT LEE PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
- BRUCE H RAWLINGSpecialist Four · January 23, 1969
- LEONARD DALE ROSEPrivate First Class · January 23, 1969
From Stanhope
- ROY CHARLES LITTLEHALESPrivate First Class · February 16, 1967
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.