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VINCENT BERTRAM PARKHURST
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 17, 1934 – February 20, 1968
Service recordVincent Bertram Parkhurst, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 46
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 17, 1934
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; three of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Binh Thuan 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.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 46
- DAVID LLOYD MOREHOUSEPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL OLSZEWSKIPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- ROY BROWN PARSONSChief Warrant Officer 2 · February 20, 1968
- DONALD DEWAYNE PHILBECKPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL ROGER BODINCorporal · Panel 40E, Line 36
- ALEXANDER FEDOROFFStaff Sergeant · Panel 40E, Line 38
- ALBERT CLARENCE WOODS JRSergeant · Panel 40E, Line 49
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.