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PETER JOE WILSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 23, 1938 – October 19, 1970
Service recordPeter Joe Wilson, of Pulaski, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on October 19, 1970, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 10
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
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 23, 1938
- Home of record
- Pulaski, New York (Oswego County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 19, 1970
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date October 19, 1970. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 6W, Line 10
- HAROLD CLIFTON MARSHStaff Sergeant · October 19, 1970
- RALPH PETERSON MILLER IIIFirst Lieutenant · October 19, 1970
- DARRYL KENNETH SCOTTSpecialist Four · October 19, 1970
- DAVID EUGENE WESTPrivate First Class · October 19, 1970
From Pulaski
- LARRY HERBERT GALLAGHERPrivate First Class · July 25, 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.