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LINDBERG WADE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 5, 1929 – May 15, 1969
Service recordLindberg Wade, of Red Springs, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 23
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember (16F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- September 5, 1929
- Home of record
- Red Springs, North Carolina (Robeson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1969
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 24W, Line 23
- ARTHUR GARCIA VILLALOBOSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1969
- CARL WILLIAM WALLSSpecialist Four · May 15, 1969
- LARRY WARRENPrivate First Class · May 15, 1969
- GEORGE DAVIS WILLIAMS JRPrivate · May 15, 1969
From Red Springs
- THOMAS DEANStaff Sergeant · October 6, 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.