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NEIL WAYNE ALDRIDGE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 12, 1947 – June 6, 1967
Service recordNeil Wayne Aldridge, of Grant Park, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 6, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 60
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Grant Park, Illinois (Kankakee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 60
- DUANE SCOTT BAKERCaptain · June 6, 1967
- DONALD JOSEPH BARNESSenior Chief Petty Officer · June 6, 1967
- JOHN ROLAND BURKECorporal · June 6, 1967
- NILES BURNEYLance Corporal · June 6, 1967
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.