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VIRGIL ALLEN CALKINS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 22, 1949 – July 8, 1969
Service recordVirgil Allen Calkins JR, of Boring, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 81
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- October 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Boring, Oregon (Clackamas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1969; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 81
- RUSSELL BERTON CARSONSergeant · July 8, 1969
- CHARLES PERRY CHANDLERSergeant · July 8, 1969
- GERALD SELAH COLVINPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
- DONALD LINCOLN COVINGTONPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT VICTOR GAPINSKISpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 82
- RUSSELL ALBERT SCHWARTZSpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 85
From Boring
- GEORGE NATHANIEL WRIGHTPrivate · May 21, 1967
- JAMES ALFRED WRIGHTSpecialist Four · May 31, 1969
- GORDON LEE WIRTH JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 9, 1971
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.