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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allan Francis Wilkins.

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ALLAN FRANCIS WILKINS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 11, 1950 – April 8, 1971

Service record

Allan Francis Wilkins, of Dorset, Vermont, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 113

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
September 11, 1950
Home of record
Dorset, Vermont (Bennington County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 8, 1971
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1971; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 113

Same unit, same day

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.