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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Watson Underwood JR.

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WATSON UNDERWOOD JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 3, 1947 – April 2, 1968

Service record

Watson Underwood JR, of Huntersville, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 47E · Line 44

Position of Panel 47E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
February 3, 1947
Home of record
Huntersville, West Virginia (Pocahontas County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 2, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1968; eight of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

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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.