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VERNON LEE HENKE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 6, 1947 – May 19, 1967
Service recordVernon Lee Henke, of La Valle, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 44
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 6, 1947
- Home of record
- La Valle, Wisconsin (Sauk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1967; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 44
- HAROLD JAMES HELLBACHCaptain · May 19, 1967
- RICHARD PETER HILGARTPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- PHILLIP MASON HINESPetty Officer Third Class · May 19, 1967
- JOHN ANDREW HOLLINGSWORTHHospitalman · May 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD PETER HILGARTPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 44
- CHARLES RUSSELL RHUEPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 48
- WALTER ALBERT WILKSPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 52
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.