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PORTER EARL CALLOWAY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 16, 1947 – March 11, 1968
Service recordPorter Earl Calloway, of Bernice, Louisiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 11, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 15
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Bernice, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 11, 1968
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín 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.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 44E, Line 15
- JOSEPH CARLOS CARVAJALPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- ROBERT DENNIS DAVISLance Corporal · March 11, 1968
- RICHARD LOY ETCHBERGERChief Master Sergeant · March 11, 1968
- JOE FRANKLIN EVANSStaff Sergeant · March 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ELDON JOHN KIRKPATRICK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 18
- JAMES LEO NUFERPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 19
- GEORGE HERMAN OEHLERPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 19
- TONY LARUE TATESpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 22
- JEFFREY ARTHUR TURNERPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 22
- GERALD FRANCIS WERNSDORFERSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 23
From Bernice
- DONALD LYNN EVANSSpecialist Four · July 3, 1971
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.