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SAMUEL EDWARD BRYANT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 8, 1947 – September 17, 1968
Service recordSamuel Edward Bryant, of Clinton, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 12
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Clinton, North Carolina (Sampson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 43W, Line 12
- NEAL GEORGE BOLLINGERSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
- ROBERT ALLEN BURKESergeant · September 17, 1968
- RICHARD ALAN CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- JAMES RUSSELL COATESSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- COLOMBO PHIL DELTERZOSergeant · Panel 43W, Line 13
- FRANK JOSEPH MCMANUSPrivate First Class · Panel 43W, Line 18
- JAMES PATRICK RAWLINSPrivate First Class · Panel 43W, Line 20
- ALBERT WILSON SIRMANS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 43W, Line 22
- RONALD WALTER ZYDELPrivate First Class · Panel 43W, Line 24
From Clinton
- HOWARD CECIL WESTSpecialist Four · December 11, 1966
- ELBERT THOMAS WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · July 14, 1967
- KENNETH PETE WILSONSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- CHRISTOPHER HIAWATHA BELLPrivate First Class · March 16, 1968
- CHARLES LONNELL MCLAURINPrivate First Class · April 24, 1968
- LAWRENCE MOBLEYPrivate First Class · May 4, 1968
- KERMIT LOUIS WILLIAMSSergeant · September 18, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD DANIELSSergeant · July 27, 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.