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FRANKLIN WYLIE NEEL
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 9, 1935 – December 23, 1969
Service recordFranklin Wylie Neel, of Gap Mills, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 87
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Supervisor (94Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 9, 1935
- Home of record
- Gap Mills, West Virginia (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1969
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1969; four of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 87
- RICHARD AGUST MARFURT JRSpecialist Five · December 23, 1969
- CLIFFORD MONTGOMERYSergeant First Class · December 23, 1969
- ROBERT JAMES OSBORNSergeant · December 23, 1969
- DAVID NEAL REEDLance Corporal · December 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL WINSLOW EDWARDS JRSergeant First Class · Panel 15W, Line 85
- CLIFFORD MONTGOMERYSergeant First Class · Panel 15W, Line 87
- EDWARD LEROY ROGERSSergeant First Class · Panel 15W, Line 88
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.