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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bennett G Wilder.

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BENNETT G WILDER

Chief Warrant Officer 3 · U.S. Army

September 5, 1929 – September 29, 1967

Service record

Bennett G Wilder, of Spring Hope, North Carolina, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 27E · Line 32

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
117 AHC 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
Born
September 5, 1929
Home of record
Spring Hope, North Carolina (Nash County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 29, 1967
Age
38
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

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35 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.