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WALLACE SYLVESTER LITTLE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 18, 1939 – May 18, 1968
Service recordWallace Sylvester Little, of Riverview, Alabama, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 20
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 18, 1939
- Home of record
- Riverview, Alabama (Escambia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 20
- BENNY JOE LEWISSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- EUGENE KENNETH LUPEPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- CHARLES BUCKLEY MASONSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- DONALD RICHARD MATESergeant · May 18, 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.