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JOHN HERMAN WILKENS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 21, 1942 – May 28, 1968
Service recordJohn Herman Wilkens, of New York, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 63W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 63W · Line 1
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 720 MP BN USARV
- Born
- April 21, 1942
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; ten of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 720 MP BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 63W, Line 1
- BOBBY LEE WHEELERCorporal · May 28, 1968
- CHARLES JAMES WHYTESergeant · May 28, 1968
- SHIRLEY WILDY JRLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- EARNEST LYNN WITTPrivate First Class · May 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROY WILLIAM NEALPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 13
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.