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HERBERT ELBRIDGE ARMSTRONG
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 9, 1930 – September 27, 1971
Service recordHerbert Elbridge Armstrong, of Lagrange, Maine, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1971, in South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 27
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- March 9, 1930
- Home of record
- Lagrange, Maine (Penobscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 27, 1971
- Age
- 41
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1971. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 27
- CHARLES WAYNE TURBERVILLESergeant · September 26, 1971
- JAMES FRANKLIN BISHOPPrivate · September 27, 1971
- LUIS HECTOR CAMPOSSergeant · September 27, 1971
- RANDALL KELVIN CLEMENTSSergeant · September 27, 1971
From Lagrange
- LARRY DANIEL BOOBARSpecialist Four · September 6, 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.