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HERBERT WILSON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 26, 1947 – March 3, 1967
Service recordHerbert Wilson JR, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 15
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wire Systems Installer (36C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 26, 1947
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1967; 21 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 15
- SELVESTER JOE VASQUESPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- ROGER RALPH WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · March 3, 1967
- GEORGE KENT YOCUMPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- LIONEL S ANTHONYPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- STEVEN JACK ADAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 6
- CHARLES BYRON ALANDTPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 6
- CHARLES HERMAN BENNETTPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 7
- WELBORN A CALLAHAN JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 16E, Line 7
- CLYDE JOSEPH CAIRESPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 8
- PAUL WILLIAM CURRANPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 8
- MICHEAL JOHN DRAKEPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 9
- MICHAEL LEO EBALDPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 9
- MELVIN CLYDE GAINESStaff Sergeant · Panel 16E, Line 10
- EARL STANLEY GARRISONPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 10
- MOSES GREENSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 10
- NORMAN A RENFROPrivate · Panel 16E, Line 12
- ANGEL PERFIR SAEZ-RAMIREZStaff Sergeant · Panel 16E, Line 13
- PETER JOHN SCHUTZSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 13
- JAMES ARTHUR SKILESPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 13
- JOHN RAYMOND STALTERSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 14
- LAWRENCE STRACKPrivate · Panel 16E, Line 14
- SELVESTER JOE VASQUESPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 15
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.