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SEVENTY J POLLOCK
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 7, 1938 – February 19, 1968
Service recordSeventy J Pollock, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 28
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 7, 1938
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
93 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 40E, Line 28
- JOHN PASS IIISpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- WALTER MARCELLU PATTERSONPrivate First Class · February 19, 1968
- JAMES DOUGLAS PENTLANDSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- DAVID ALLEN PITTSPrivate First Class · February 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS J GLOVERSergeant First Class · Panel 40E, Line 21
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
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.