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JOHN WALTER WILSON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 4, 1944 – December 10, 1965
Service recordJohn Walter Wilson JR, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 10, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 11
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Service Marine (9900)
- Born
- May 4, 1944
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1965
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1965; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 11
- BARRY JAMES SITLERLance Corporal · December 10, 1965
- LLOYD ALLEN VANNATTERCorporal · December 10, 1965
- ROBERT CHARLES FELTERPrivate First Class · December 11, 1965
- DONALD DAVID STEWARTStaff Sergeant · December 11, 1965
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
- DENNIS RICHARD TABORCorporal · June 11, 1966
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.