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EUGENE WESLEY WICKER
Corporal · U.S. Army
December 25, 1947 – September 5, 1968
Service recordEugene Wesley Wicker, of Lillington, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 5, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 46
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Fire Support Specialist (13F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- December 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Lillington, North Carolina (Harnett County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45W, Line 46
- DAVID DOUGLAS SIEGELCorporal · September 5, 1968
- JOSEPH MICHAEL TURKSpecialist Five · September 5, 1968
- TERRY CHIP WELTYSpecialist Four · September 5, 1968
- MICHAEL DALE WHITEPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
From Lillington
- LEONARD MONROE PARRISHPrivate First Class · August 14, 1968
- MARVIN ARTHUR GIESStaff Sergeant · January 21, 1969
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.