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NEIL ROBERT ELLSWORTH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 15, 1947 – April 13, 1967
Service recordNeil Robert Ellsworth, of Northboro, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 13, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 22
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Northboro, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 22
- WILLIAM DONALD GARNERPrivate First Class · April 13, 1967
- WALTER LEWIS GIBSONPrivate First Class · April 13, 1967
- CHARLES HENRY HORNColonel · April 13, 1967
- WILLIAM FRANCIS HORVATHPrivate First Class · April 13, 1967
From Northboro
- DAVID ALFRED MCAFEEPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
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.