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GROVER C WRIGHT JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 28, 1947 – April 18, 1968
Service recordGrover C Wright JR, of Doran, Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 43
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- January 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Doran, Virginia (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1968; ten of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 43
- ERNEST VETTER JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
- JOHNNY ROBERT WEBBPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
- FREDERICK DEVILLA WESCOTTStaff Sergeant · April 18, 1968
- REGINALD WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 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.