About this remembrance
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., designed by Maya Lin and dedicated on November 13, 1982, bears the names of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces who died or remain missing as a result of the Vietnam War. As of 2026, the Wall holds 58,281 names. This site lets you walk the whole Wall from anywhere and stop at any name.
Where the records come from
Every service record on this site comes from the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File, as of April 29, 2008, produced by the Defense Manpower Data Center from the Defense Casualty Analysis System and preserved by the National Archives (Record Group 330, NAID 2240992). That file lists 58,220 people, with panel and line. The 61 names added to the Wall since 2008 were taken from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s announcements and its Wall of Faces listings, and their pages say so. About two dozen records in the federal file had a missing or malformed panel and line; those were checked one by one against the Wall of Faces. In all, this site lists 58,280 names, against the Memorial’s official count of 58,281; if you know of a name that is missing, please tell us.
We have deliberately left out parts of the federal file that do not belong on a memorial page: service numbers (which for this era are often Social Security numbers), race, religion and marital status. For deaths the file classifies as self-inflicted or homicide, the page says “died of other causes,” following the practice of other memorial sites. Units appear exactly as the military recorded them.
Order on the Wall
On the panorama, names are written the way the Memorial usually inscribes them: first name, middle initial and last name. Name pages give the full name from the service record. Within each line, names are shown by date of loss and then alphabetically. Panel and line come from the record; the position of a name within its line, and the exact spelling or form of an individual inscription, may differ slightly from the stone.
Photographs and memories
Most photographs of the fallen belong to their families. We do not copy them from other sites. A photograph appears on a page only when it is in the public domain (for example, an official military portrait) or when a family member or friend shares it with us and gives permission. Every submission is reviewed before it is posted. To share one, use the Share a photo or memory button on any name page.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces has gathered a photograph for nearly every name, along with thousands of remembrances. Every name page here links to it.
Corrections
If you find an error, or if you are a family member who would like a page changed, please write through the Share a photo or memory form and tell us which name and what should change. We will check it against the record and reply.
Who made this
The Wall is published by The Lake Norman Brief, the history and legal-education site of Adkins Law, PLLC, in Mooresville and Huntersville, North Carolina. It is an independent remembrance and is not affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the National Park Service, or the Department of Defense.