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WALTER RIDGEWAY WINDER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 17, 1948 – April 22, 1968
Service recordWalter Ridgeway Winder JR, of Washington, District of Columbia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- U/A Airplane Repairman (67C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Washington, District of Columbia (District Of Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 34
- JOHNNY SALAS TAITAGUESpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- THURMAN TRACY WALLSCorporal · April 22, 1968
- EDWARD EUGENE WHALENPrivate First Class · April 22, 1968
- ROBERT RANDOLPH WHITE JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HENRY ALBERT HEAL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 30
- LESTER LEWIS MOOREPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 31
- HENRY PASILLASSpecialist Four · Panel 51E, Line 32
- NORMAN LEE HINKLESpecialist Four · Panel 51E, Line 33
From Washington
- HOMER CLEO MCINTYRE JRCaptain · July 28, 1964
- JAMES MARTIN CALEStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- GEZA TEGLASSergeant · October 27, 1965
- LOUIS SHERRODSergeant · November 6, 1965
- LEROY HILLPlatoon Sergeant · November 8, 1965
- CALVIN BOUKNIGHTSpecialist Five · November 16, 1965
- PAUL EDWARD HURDLEStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- THEODORE M BEAMONSpecialist Four · November 23, 1965
- HARRY RONALD HOSKINSONSpecialist Four · December 13, 1965
- WILLIE MITCHELL JRAirman First Class · December 20, 1965
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.