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ALVIN LEE SHADWICK
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 17, 1947 – February 8, 1969
Service recordAlvin Lee Shadwick, of Grand Saline, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 89
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Grand Saline, Texas (Van Zandt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 8, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 89
- KENNETH CHARLES HESSSergeant · February 8, 1969
- JAMES MARK SKOMSKISpecialist Four · February 8, 1969
- RICHARD LOWELL SKOUBYSpecialist Four · February 8, 1969
- MICHAEL JOHN SPEARSpecialist Four · February 8, 1969
From Grand Saline
- JAMES HARDY WILBANKSCorporal · February 14, 1970
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.