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UPTON FINLEY ASHLEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 22, 1941 – November 3, 1966
Service recordUpton Finley Ashley, of Winchester, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 3, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 22, 1941
- Home of record
- Winchester, Virginia (Winchester (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 3, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 12
- EDGAR HUNTER BEASLEYCorporal · November 3, 1966
- WILLIAM CARPENTER JRPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- RANDOLPH DAVISSergeant · November 3, 1966
- KENNETH EUGENE SANDERSPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
From Winchester
- LORING WILLIAM CARPER JRHospitalman · May 17, 1966
- JERRY MALONE JENKINSSpecialist Four · June 16, 1967
- JOHN FRANKLIN MORRISON JRPrivate First Class · December 30, 1967
- DONALD KEITH POWELLCorporal · August 21, 1968
- GREGORY JACKSON FRANKLINPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- CHARLES HERBERT HODSON JRSergeant First Class · December 24, 1968
- ROBERT ALLAN WASHINGTONStaff Sergeant · August 13, 1969
- LAWRENCE EUGENE FLETCHERFirst Lieutenant · May 7, 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.