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HORACE LEE WARDELL
Private · U.S. Army
April 6, 1950 – August 20, 1970
Service recordHorace Lee Wardell, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 126
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 (PVT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- April 6, 1950
- Home of record
- Uniontown, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 126
- PAUL MILLERSergeant · August 20, 1970
- WAYNE WILSON MULLINSeaman · August 20, 1970
- MICHAEL JAMES DOUGANPrivate First Class · August 21, 1970
- ROBERT LOUIS FRASCHWarrant Officer 1 · August 21, 1970
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ERNEST BROUGHTONSpecialist Four · Panel 8W, Line 125
From Uniontown
- JOSEPH GEORGE EVANS JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- JULIUS JOSEPH VALINT JRLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- BARRY ALAN ZAVISLANCaptain · March 6, 1967
- EARL FREDERICK BURKESergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT MCDONOUGHSpecialist Five · May 7, 1968
- DANIEL EUGENE FIKELance Corporal · October 18, 1968
- SAMUEL DALE SHIMEKSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- LOUIS GERARD WHEELERSergeant · March 16, 1969
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.