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OLIVER ARGYLE WARE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 21, 1935 – May 18, 1967
Service recordOliver Argyle Ware, of Sutton, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 38
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 21, 1935
- Home of record
- Sutton, West Virginia (Braxton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 38
- ROBERT ALLAN TURNERPetty Officer Second Class · May 18, 1967
- WILLIAM WELLSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS WILSONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JAMES ARNOLD WORKMANSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FLORENTINO CIPRIAN BARRONCorporal · Panel 20E, Line 20
- ROY DUKE CHITWOODStaff Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 22
- COIL EDMOND JRCorporal · Panel 20E, Line 25
- WILLIAM CARL FREUNDCorporal · Panel 20E, Line 26
- WILLIE ROGER GRIFFITHSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 28
- JOHN WAYNE HUDGENSSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 29
- STANLEY MICHAEL JAMROZYSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 29
- PHILIP JOHN OLOFSONPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 33
- ALVIN RICHARD SPIDERPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 36
- CALVIN LEROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 37
- LEON THORNTONSergeant · Panel 20E, Line 37
From Sutton
- ALFRED HARLEN BLEIGH JRSergeant · February 9, 1968
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.