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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Homer Erick Tischler.

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HOMER ERICK TISCHLER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 2, 1942 – July 9, 1966

Service record

Homer Erick Tischler, of Winters, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 9E · Line 13

Position of Panel 9E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 2, 1942
Home of record
Winters, Texas (Runnels County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 9, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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28 names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 9E, Line 13

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.