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WILLIAM EARL FOSTER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 17, 1943 – September 12, 1968
Service recordWilliam Earl Foster JR, of Elyria, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Aerial Sensor Specialist (17L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 17, 1943
- Home of record
- Elyria, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 12, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 37
- DENNIS WAYNE GLYNNPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY HANSONFirst Lieutenant · September 12, 1968
- ISAAC HARRISSergeant · September 12, 1968
- MICHAEL LYNN HEITGERPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT RALPH WEISSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 44W, Line 43
From Elyria
- JAMES DAVID SMITHPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- JAMES CALVIN WHITMOREPrivate First Class · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL DRENNEN MILBURNLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- TROY TONY THREETPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- GEORGE WESLEY DEJARNETTSpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
- DONNIE STANLEY KEGGPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- NORMAN JONES JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JOHN LESTER BEGANPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- CALVIN KERMIT COONLance Corporal · September 18, 1968
- JOSEPH GEORGE AMBROSIOSpecialist Four · September 27, 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.