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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Walter Eugene Justice SR.

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WALTER EUGENE JUSTICE SR

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

March 7, 1934 – April 19, 1969

Service record

Walter Eugene Justice SR, of Kansas City, Kansas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 19, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 9

Position of Panel 26W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
March 7, 1934
Home of record
Kansas City, Kansas (Wyandotte County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 19, 1969
Age
35
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 9

Same unit, same day

From Kansas City

All 55 names from Kansas City →

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.