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OWEN DAVID GOODSELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 23, 1941 – January 24, 1967
Service recordOwen David Goodsell, of Ft Edward, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 23, 1941
- Home of record
- Ft Edward, New York (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 75
- JAMES PRICE SPENCERCorporal · January 24, 1967
- FRANCIS JAMES THOMPSONCaptain · January 24, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD VANHOUTENPrivate First Class · January 24, 1967
- CLARK L WALKERSpecialist Four · January 24, 1967
From Ft Edward
- DENNIS EDWARD HIGGINSSpecialist Four · January 19, 1966
- JAMES WILLIAM COLLIERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1967
- GENE FRANCIS COLVINSergeant · July 1, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MCCARTYFirst Lieutenant · October 12, 1967
- JOSEPH MICHAEL DANGELICOSpecialist Four · January 2, 1970
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.