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PHILLIP JOHN ESSIG
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 31, 1948 – August 15, 1968
Service recordPhillip John Essig, of Bensenville, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Bensenville, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 15, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 17
- ROGER DALE BOWMANPrivate First Class · August 15, 1968
- CHARLES FREDERICK CRICHTONPrivate First Class · August 15, 1968
- ROBERT EDWARD CROWLEYFirst Lieutenant · August 15, 1968
- ROLAND LOUIE FLORIOChief Warrant Officer 2 · August 15, 1968
From Bensenville
- MICHAEL JOHN COLEMANLance Corporal · January 27, 1968
- RICHARD ALAN ROTHERYLance Corporal · February 24, 1968
- JOHN WAYNE HEAPSPrivate First Class · September 14, 1968
- ALAN FREDERICK MARSCHALLSergeant · March 21, 1969
- PATRICK ROBERT CURRANMajor · September 29, 1969
- MICHAEL WAYNE PRENGELSpecialist Four · December 3, 1969
- JAN DOUGLAS GARRINGERCorporal · February 16, 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.