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JOSEPH EWING SMITH
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 13, 1946 – September 5, 1968
Service recordJoseph Ewing Smith, of Corsicana, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 5, 1968, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 45
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Technical Drafting Specialist (81B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Corsicana, Texas (Navarro County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45W, Line 45
- LIONEL ALVAREZ RYANPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- EUGENE HENRY STEPPPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- RAYMOND VINCENT STOLPASergeant · September 5, 1968
- LLOYD EARL VALENTINESergeant · September 5, 1968
From Corsicana
- DONALD LOYE RICHARDSONCorporal · August 11, 1966
- AUTRY GREENStaff Sergeant · December 6, 1966
- RONALD LYNN MARTINWarrant Officer 1 · January 1, 1968
- RONALD MICHAEL BLUEStaff Sergeant · May 24, 1970
- SAMUEL WAYMON MCDANIEL IISpecialist Five · July 8, 1971
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.