Remembering Them Forever (RTF)!
Osborne, Jr., Elvis Weldon
- Dallas, Texas, Dallas County, 75228, United States
Military Information:
- US Army
- PH: Purple Heart
- Vietnam Veteran
- Deceased
- KIA
- SGT: Sergeant
- QR Code
- Good Conduct Medal
- 1-Alpha List
- Marksmanship Badge
- National/American Defense Service Medal/Award
- Vietnam Memorial Wall
Dates of Service 1:
Service Start Date: NA Service End Date: NA
Dates of Service 2:
Service Start Date: NA Service End Date: NA
Bio:
Elvis is honored on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington DC. Name inscribed at VVM Wall, Panel 01w, Line 39.
SGT Elvis W. Osborne Jr. and SP4 Jeffrey A. Maurer were Rangers serving with Team 76, H Company, 75th Infantry, 1st Cavalry Division. On June 9, 1972, they were on a patrol led by Osborne conducting reconnaissance near Tan Uyen, approximately eight miles southwest of Phuo Vinh City in Binh Duong Province, RVN. After helicopter gunships raked a North Vietnam Army bunker complex there, the team went in to assess the damage. Either a rocket or a command-detonated bomb rigged as a mechanical ambush device claimed their lives. Osborne and Maurer were among the last U.S. Army infantrymen killed by enemy action in the war.
His tour was up in a bit over a month.
For more pictures and remembrances see: https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/38910/ELVIS-W-OSBORNE-JR/
https://www.virtualwall.org/do/OsborneEW01a.htm
https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=291088
https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/38910/ELVIS-W-OSBORNE-JR/
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