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PETER NELSON BALDWIN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 17, 1947 – March 28, 1968
Service recordPeter Nelson Baldwin, of North Babylon, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 52
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 17, 1947
- Home of record
- North Babylon, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 52
- CLIFFORD LEROY WILLIAMSCorporal · March 27, 1968
- PEDER WALTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- JAMES LAVERN BOWMANPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- ALAN LEE BOYERSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEE MATHEWS LAMBERTSergeant · Panel 46E, Line 53
- ROY DAVID ELSTON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 54
- JAMES A HARRINGTON JRSergeant · Panel 46E, Line 55
From North Babylon
- WAYNE LEE MIDDLETONPrivate First Class · April 15, 1967
- HENRY YORKCorporal · February 8, 1968
- VINCENT ANTHONY DATENASpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- PHILLIP ROGERSSpecialist Five · June 25, 1968
- LUIS ROLA MERCADO-COLLADOSpecialist Four · July 7, 1968
- GEORGE RICHARD GREEN JRPrivate · May 5, 1969
- GARY JOHN WINKLERSpecialist Four · June 9, 1969
- BERNARDINO FRANCIS GENCHIWarrant Officer 1 · July 22, 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.