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WALLACE EDWIN BAKER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 14, 1930 – January 2, 1966
Service recordWallace Edwin Baker, of Windham, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 49
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 14, 1930
- Home of record
- Windham, Ohio (Portage County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1966
- Age
- 35
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 49
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- JACK DENTON BIXBYPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- CARL RAYMOND BROOKSSpecialist Four · January 2, 1966
- GEORGE EDDIE GEOGHAGENSpecialist Four · January 2, 1966
Same unit, same day
- LARRY JOSEPH NADEAUPrivate · Panel 4E, Line 48
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 49
- JACK DENTON BIXBYPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 49
- GEORGE EDDIE GEOGHAGENSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 49
- JOHNNY H LEAKEPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 50
- GERALD LEVYSpecialist Five · Panel 4E, Line 50
- GARY FRANKLIN LEWISSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 50
- ELLIOTT LYNN MERKLEPrivate · Panel 4E, Line 50
- TIMOTHY WAYNE AIKEYSergeant · Panel 4E, Line 51
- WALTER EDWIN MCINTIRE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 51
- JERRY WAYNE MORTONSergeant · Panel 4E, Line 51
- RUBEN CLEVELAND ALSTONSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 52
- ROBERT GEORGE SMITHPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 52
- JUVENCIO TORRES-ACEVEDOPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 52
From Windham
- JERRY RUSSELL NICHOLSLance Corporal · April 11, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD SULLINGERCorporal · June 15, 1968
- SHERL KENT BONNETTPrivate First Class · December 19, 1968
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.