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HARVIE PERRY WINKLES III
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
April 20, 1948 – December 8, 1968
Service recordHarvie Perry Winkles III, of Texico, New Mexico, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 72
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS 1 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- April 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Texico, New Mexico (Curry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS 1 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 72
- WILLIAM CHARLES WIRICKCorporal · December 8, 1968
- ARTHUR WINDELL WOODPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
- THOMAS DUDLEY BERKFIELDSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- MICHAEL J CIESIELKA JRFirst Lieutenant · December 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY LEE MARSHPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 37W, Line 66
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.