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WILLIAM EISTER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 17, 1938 – February 6, 1968
Service recordWilliam Eister, of Mt Holly, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 17, 1938
- Home of record
- Mt Holly, New Jersey (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac 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 37E, Line 54
- RAYMOND EARL DUNLAPSecond Lieutenant · February 6, 1968
- JOHN H EDWARDS JRSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
- WILLIAM DAVID ELTRINGHAMSpecialist Five · February 6, 1968
- MICHAEL ALLARD HODGEPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
From Mt Holly
- JOSEPH JOHN REILLYPrivate First Class · February 27, 1966
- ROBERT THOMAS DOUGHTYSpecialist Four · December 11, 1966
- RICHARD PLOTTSPrivate First Class · December 7, 1967
- WAYNE PAUL REEVESPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- ANTHONY WILFRED TORRESPlatoon Sergeant · May 4, 1968
- WILLIAM DANIELS MEARA JRCaptain · November 2, 1968
- SOLOMON HERBERT BRYANTSergeant First Class · September 24, 1969
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.