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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 Mark Smith JR.

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MARK SMITH JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 21, 1945 – May 18, 1967

Service record

Mark Smith JR, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 36

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
53 MED GRP 44 MED BDE
Born
January 21, 1945
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 18, 1967
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 36

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.