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SAMUEL MORGAN HARRELL
First Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 18, 1926 – March 15, 1971
Service recordSamuel Morgan Harrell, of Indian Trail, North Carolina, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1971, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 44. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 49
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
- First Sergeant (1SG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Supervisor (62N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- September 18, 1926
- Home of record
- Indian Trail, North Carolina (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1971
- Age
- 44
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1971; two of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 4W, Line 49
- JUAN ESPINOSACorporal · March 15, 1971
- RAYMOND JAMES GEORGEChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 15, 1971
- RICHARD ELLIOTT HARLANSecond Lieutenant · March 15, 1971
- PHILIP ROBERT JAMROCKSpecialist Five · March 15, 1971
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK DOUGLAS ERBWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 4W, Line 48
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.