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PHILLIP HENRY ENGLE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 31, 1950 – December 17, 1968
Service recordPhillip Henry Engle, of Woodlawn, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 17, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 34
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)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 31, 1950
- Home of record
- Woodlawn, Tennessee (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 17, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date December 17, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 34
- KENNETH ROY CRISTCaptain · December 17, 1968
- RICHARD GUY DRAKESergeant · December 17, 1968
- RICHARD CHARLES DREWESCaptain · December 17, 1968
- TOMMY RAY EATONSpecialist Four · December 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HERMAN LEE MCCLAMBPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 36
From Woodlawn
- MICHAEL EDWARD DARNELLPrivate First Class · January 11, 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.