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VINCENT WRIGHT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 7, 1950 – June 17, 1971
Service recordVincent Wright, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 17, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 80
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
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- July 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1971; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 80
- PHILLIP LEWIS LEEFirst Lieutenant · June 17, 1971
- BARRY ALAN BIDWELLPetty Officer Second Class · June 18, 1971
- RAYMOND VINCE DEBLASIO JRLieutenant (junior grade) · June 18, 1971
- JOHN TILLMAN DOZIER IIStaff Sergeant · June 18, 1971
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 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.