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WILLIAM ERNEST PASCH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 3, 1947 – May 11, 1968
Service recordWilliam Ernest Pasch, of Groton, South Dakota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 24
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- October 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Groton, South Dakota (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58E, Line 24
- JOHN MITCHELL MICHALSKISpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
- CRAIG WESLEY MITCHELLSpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
- JOHN TERRY MOORE JRSergeant · May 11, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID MUELLERSergeant · May 11, 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.