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WARREN EMERY NEWTON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 26, 1949 – January 9, 1968
Service recordWarren Emery Newton, of Canby, Oregon, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on January 9, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 9
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
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Canby, Oregon (Clackamas County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- January 9, 1968
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date January 9, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 34E, Line 9
- JOHN CLARK MCDOWELLCorporal · January 9, 1968
- DOUGLAS STEVEN MCILROYCorporal · January 9, 1968
- PAUL HAROLD OLIVERPrivate First Class · January 9, 1968
- JAMES LARRY PHIPPSChief Warrant Officer 3 · January 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LARRY PHIPPSChief Warrant Officer 3 · Panel 34E, Line 9
- RAINER SYLVESTER RAMOSChief Warrant Officer 3 · Panel 34E, Line 10
- FRED JASON SECRISTSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 11
From Canby
- ROBERT DEAN NEASHAMSpecialist Four · October 13, 1968
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.