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HAROLD J VANWINKLE JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 19, 1948 – February 16, 1969
Service recordHarold J Vanwinkle JR, of Paterson, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 47
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- May 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Paterson, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 47
- NORMAND PAUL PERRONWarrant Officer 1 · February 16, 1969
- ROBERT WALTER WHITNEYPrivate First Class · February 16, 1969
- WILLIAM MICHAEL WOGANSergeant First Class · February 16, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM BELLPrivate First Class · February 17, 1969
From Paterson
- JESSE JAMES JRLance Corporal · June 23, 1965
- LLOYD VINCENT GREENESergeant · November 8, 1965
- RAFAEL SANTIAGO-CRUZPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- WILLIAM HOBSON HUBBARDSergeant First Class · March 16, 1966
- PETER FRANCIS MEADPetty Officer Third Class · May 21, 1966
- JOHN HENRY LADUKELance Corporal · April 20, 1967
- WLADMIR WILLIAM ZUBARSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- VINCENT JAMES GABRIEL JRPrivate First Class · May 22, 1967
- DONALD IANDOLISergeant · November 19, 1967
- ARTHUR JORDANPrivate First Class · January 10, 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.