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WALLACE GOING
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
May 16, 1932 – December 23, 1968
Service recordWallace Going, of Watson, Oklahoma, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 23, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 69
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 9 ASLT DIV 91
- Born
- May 16, 1932
- Home of record
- Watson, Oklahoma (Mccurtain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 69
- GERARDO HOLQUIN GONZALESLance Corporal · December 23, 1968
- DWIGHT HODGESPrivate First Class · December 23, 1968
- GARY LEE HOGANPrivate First Class · December 23, 1968
- HERBERT EDGAR ING IIISecond Lieutenant · December 23, 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.