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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Anthony Wagner.

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RAYMOND ANTHONY WAGNER

Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force

October 22, 1951 – March 27, 1972

Service record

Raymond Anthony Wagner, of Evansville, Indiana, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 27, 1972, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 120 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 120

Position of Panel 2W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Air Force
Rank
Airman First Class (A1C)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
40 ARRSMAC
Born
October 22, 1951
Home of record
Evansville, Indiana (Vanderburgh County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 27, 1972
Age
20
Country
Cambodia
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1972. In March 1972, 69 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.

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.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 120

From Evansville

All 56 names from Evansville →

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.