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MACWAYNE SPEAKS
Captain · U.S. Army
July 12, 1938 – March 27, 1968
Service recordMacwayne Speaks, of Alexander City, Alabama, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 50
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 12, 1938
- Home of record
- Alexander City, Alabama (Tallapoosa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46E, Line 50
- CARL ALVIN SHUTT JRSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- JOSEPH EUGENE SINTONISpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- IRWIN ROSS SOBELPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- EXTRUMBERTO SOLISSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- FREDRIC BRUCE DAVISSpecialist Four · January 14, 1973
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY C CALHOUNSergeant First Class · Panel 46E, Line 45
From Alexander City
- GORDON HERBERT DUNAWAYLance Corporal · August 12, 1966
- JOHN THOMAS ODOMPrivate First Class · February 18, 1967
- ALBERT FRANKLIN CLEVELANDPrivate · April 17, 1967
- JOSEPH ROBERT MITCHELL JRSecond Lieutenant · April 30, 1967
- HARRY ELLIS HAYESFirst Lieutenant · March 31, 1970
- THOMAS WINFORD JACKSONSenior Master Sergeant · June 22, 1972
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.