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PHILLIP CHARLES SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 14, 1949 – August 3, 1969
Service recordPhillip Charles Smith, of Pacific Grove, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 3, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 93
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Pacific Grove, California (Monterey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 3, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date August 3, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 93
- TERRENCE M MCDERMOTTFirst Lieutenant · August 3, 1969
- CARL EUGENE MORGANPrivate First Class · August 3, 1969
- DENNIS RAY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · August 3, 1969
- GEORGE CRAIG SCHOETTNERSpecialist Four · August 3, 1969
From Pacific Grove
- REINALDO ANTONIO CASTROSergeant · April 27, 1967
- RUDOLPH RALPH CORONA IIIPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- JOHN RAYMOND THOMASSergeant · December 4, 1968
- JAMES LEE URNESPrivate First Class · May 4, 1969
- RICHARD LEE BUCKLESCaptain · July 12, 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.