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VERNON LEWIS WALKER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 16, 1933 – February 27, 1968
Service recordVernon Lewis Walker, of Nashville, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 16, 1933
- Home of record
- Nashville, Tennessee (Davidson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 56
- JOSE RAFAEL TAVAREZSergeant · February 27, 1968
- JIMMY MICHAEL TROLLINGERPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- ANTHONY NICHOLAS VALENTEGunnery Sergeant · February 27, 1968
- JEIDER JACKSON WARRENPetty Officer First Class · February 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STANLEY EDWIN GRAVES JRPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 49
- JAMES DOMINIO YOUNGHAMCorporal · Panel 41E, Line 57
From Nashville
- ALVIN G PARKERPrivate First Class · February 7, 1965
- DALLAS LAWSONPrivate First Class · February 10, 1965
- THOMAS C MCEWEN JRCaptain · February 24, 1965
- VARIS SAVAGE JRSergeant · November 6, 1965
- JOHN EDWARD FUQUASecond Lieutenant · January 31, 1966
- JOE KENNETH TAYLORSpecialist Four · February 22, 1966
- CLARENCE MITCHELLSergeant · February 26, 1966
- DENNIS EDWARD HOLTPrivate · March 30, 1966
- ROGER DALE JARRELLPrivate First Class · April 3, 1966
- JASPER LEE KEENSergeant · May 19, 1966
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.