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JOHN WAYNE TRACY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 27, 1934 – September 18, 1969
Service recordJohn Wayne Tracy, of Seminole, Oklahoma, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 18, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 112
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 27, 1934
- Home of record
- Seminole, Oklahoma (Seminole County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 18, 1969
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18W, Line 112
- CORDIS RAY WHITESpecialist Four · September 18, 1969
- RICHARD GEORGE BOUCHARDCorporal · September 19, 1969
- TERRY LEE CHARLESPrivate First Class · September 19, 1969
- STEPHEN EDWARD CRISTPrivate First Class · September 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WILLIAM LABRECQUECorporal · Panel 18W, Line 110
From Seminole
- CHARLES EDWARD OLIVERPrivate First Class · July 23, 1967
- CHARLES DAVID BRASIERSergeant · July 14, 1969
- KENNETH DEWAYNE HARJOSpecialist Four · November 18, 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.