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NOAH LELAND SMITH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 16, 1949 – November 23, 1968
Service recordNoah Leland Smith, of Hamlet, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 46
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Hamlet, North Carolina (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 23, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38W, Line 46
- LARRY WAYNE RYCROFTPrivate First Class · November 23, 1968
- FRANK SANFILIPPOPrivate First Class · November 23, 1968
- ROBERT LEONARD SANGSTERPrivate · November 23, 1968
- EDDIE LOU SHAFFERSergeant · November 23, 1968
From Hamlet
- JAMES ARTHUR ASHECRAFTPrivate First Class · December 28, 1966
- LUTHER HARRIS HOWARDSpecialist Four · June 30, 1967
- LONNIE ELLERBE JRLance Corporal · August 13, 1968
- DONALD LINCOLN COVINGTONPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
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.