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JOE FRANKLIN EVANS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 23, 1926 – March 11, 1968
Service recordJoe Franklin Evans, of Fayetteville, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 15
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Crewmember (13B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 23, 1926
- Home of record
- Fayetteville, Ohio (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1968
- Age
- 41
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 15
- PORTER EARL CALLOWAYStaff Sergeant · March 11, 1968
- JOSEPH CARLOS CARVAJALPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- ROBERT DENNIS DAVISLance Corporal · March 11, 1968
- RICHARD LOY ETCHBERGERChief Master Sergeant · March 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TERENCE PIERCE THOMASPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 22
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.