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ELROY FREDERICK WELLS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 12, 1932 – December 27, 1970
Service recordElroy Frederick Wells, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1970, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Watercraft Operator (61B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- July 12, 1932
- Home of record
- Ponca City, Oklahoma (Kay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1970
- Age
- 38
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1970; two of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 10
- ARTHUR HOUSTON PRICEStaff Sergeant · December 26, 1970
- PAUL RUBIO VILLALOBOSSpecialist Four · December 26, 1970
- LAWRENCE GENE BANGSSpecialist Five · December 27, 1970
- RAYMOND ROBERT COOREMANWarrant Officer 1 · December 27, 1970
From Ponca City
- WILLIAM DONALD REYNOLDSCaptain · March 28, 1965
- CLARENCE GENE FORMANPrivate First Class · June 18, 1966
- VERN LEE PRAYSergeant · January 9, 1967
- JAMES HARRELL FOWLERPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JAMES JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · May 21, 1967
- EDGAR ALLEN CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- FREDERICK EUGENE ROUSESpecialist Four · September 28, 1968
- LARRY DEAN KEELERSpecialist Five · December 15, 1969
- LEWIS EARL COXCorporal · May 19, 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.