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WALLACE ADDISON FORD
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
June 13, 1924 – May 24, 1968
Service recordWallace Addison Ford, of Huntington, West Virginia, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on May 24, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 68E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 68E · Line 2
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- June 13, 1924
- Home of record
- Huntington, West Virginia (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1968
- Age
- 43
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 68E, Line 2
- GARY DUANE FOXCorporal · May 24, 1968
- RONALD LLOYD FRAZERSecond Lieutenant · May 24, 1968
- ROBERT ALLEN HAYDENCorporal · May 24, 1968
- PAUL LEWISLance Corporal · May 24, 1968
From Huntington
- GERALD BRUCE ROSESpecialist Five · February 22, 1965
- GLENN MCARTHUR LANEPetty Officer Second Class · October 26, 1965
- JACKIE L WAYMIRESergeant · January 9, 1967
- EMORY LE ROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- RONALD KEITH NEALPetty Officer Third Class · April 21, 1967
- JOHNNY MALCOLM JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 21, 1967
- JAMES RICHARD EMMERTSergeant · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD CRAFTSergeant First Class · September 25, 1967
- LESTER LEE MEADOWS JRSpecialist Four · September 29, 1967
- HARON LEE BROWN IIFirst Lieutenant · December 14, 1967
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.