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ERNIE LEE WALLEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 17, 1948 – August 30, 1969
Service recordErnie Lee Wallen, of Pierceton, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 13
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Pierceton, Indiana (Kosciusko County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1969; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 13
- RICHARD THOMAS WILHELMCorporal · August 30, 1969
- ISMAEL BENITO ARANDALance Corporal · August 31, 1969
- DOUGLAS ALVIN BENNETTSpecialist Five · August 31, 1969
- JEROME EARL BOWERSSpecialist Four · August 31, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DUANE ALAN CLEFISCHSpecialist Four · Panel 18W, Line 10
From Pierceton
- LARRY E WORKMANSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
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.