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WALLACE WILLIAM SHANE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 21, 1946 – May 5, 1968
Service recordWallace William Shane, of Baden, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 5, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 30
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Baden, Pennsylvania (Beaver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 30
- RONALD SAPORITOPetty Officer Third Class · May 5, 1968
- GARY OLIN SCHLAMPPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- WILLIAM EMERSON SHAFFERSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- KENNETH PARKER SHASTEENPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
From Baden
- LARRY WENDELL PIERCEPrivate First Class · December 24, 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.