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SYLVESTER WRIGHT JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 13, 1949 – March 26, 1968
Service recordSylvester Wright JR, of Jeanerette, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 43
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Jeanerette, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 46E, Line 43
- JOHNNY WAYNE WANAMAKERCorporal · March 26, 1968
- HERBERT FRANKLIN WHITELance Corporal · March 26, 1968
- HARVEY GENE ADAIRPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- JAMES LINSDAY BADLEYFirst Lieutenant · March 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY WAYNE WANAMAKERCorporal · Panel 46E, Line 43
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.