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HENRY LEE BURTON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 14, 1949 – April 14, 1970
Service recordHenry Lee Burton, of Lydia, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 2
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Lydia, South Carolina (Darlington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 2
- GEORGE BERNARD ROBINSONSergeant · April 13, 1970
- ROBERT JAMES SHURRSpecialist Six · April 13, 1970
- LESLIE JAMES WATSONSergeant · April 13, 1970
- CARL LEON BRUTONPrivate First Class · April 14, 1970
From Lydia
- TOMMY LEE TAYLORPrivate First Class · April 19, 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.